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- Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A.D.
- Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Economy, 1854
- Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, September 26, 1712
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
- Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Conclusion, 1854
- To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Sybil, 1845
- He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, February 11, 1840
- Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
- I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.
- Ben Stein, E! Online, 12-20-03
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