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A man's powers ought not to be monopolised by his ordinary day's work.
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It is always the man who has tasted life who demands more of it.
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if your ordinary day's work is thus exhausting, then the balance of your life is wrong and must be adjusted
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When we have been engaged in the preliminaries to living for about fifty-five years, we begin to think about slacking off.
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A person is idle because his thoughts dwell habitually on the instant pleasures of idleness.
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My aim is to show that only an inappreciable fraction of our ordered and sustained efforts is given to the business of actual living, as distinguished from the preliminaries to living.