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"ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY." – Jack Torrance played by Jack Nicholson, "The Shining", screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson.
"Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: 'Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.'" – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" (1858), VI.
"Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue: Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true." – Richard Francis Burton, in "The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî" (1870), VII.
"Intellectual life has a certain spontaneous character and…
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