“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

— Bertrand Russell

From Marthe Troly-Curtin's Phrynette Married (1912). Misattributed to Bertrand Russell due to an ambiguous entry in Laurence J. Peter's Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/
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logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and politi… 1872–1970

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