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I have no wish to labour the obvious. --Thomas More

17 October 2004

When common routines and public approval foster only Work, leisure becomes the exception, an escape to be contrived over and over. It is then an individual privilege, not a custom, and it breeds the specialized recreations and addictions of our time.

--------Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence

 

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