“The right kind of leisure is better than the wrong kind of work.”
Más vale el buen ocio que el negocio.
Maxim 247
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
“All eating is a kind of proselytising — a kind of dogmatising — a maintaining that the eater’s way of looking at things is better than the eatee’s.”
Eating and Proselytising
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VI - Mind and Matter
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