Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs.... I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Recreation carries with it a sense of necessity and purpose. However pleasurable this antidote to work may be, it's a form of acti...ve employment, engaged in with a specific end in mind--a refreshment of the spirit, or the body, or both. Implicit in this idea of renewal--usually organized renewal--is the notion that recreation is a consequence of work and a preparation for more of it.... Leisure is not tied to work the way that recreation is--leisure is self-contained. The root of the word is the Latin licere which means "to be permitted," suggesting that leisure is about freedom. But freedom for what? According to Chesterton's cheerful view, leisure was above all an opportunity to do nothing. When he said "doing nothing," however, he was describing not emptiness but an occasion for reflection and contemplation, a chance to look inward rather than outward.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say, "I love you"; then if you urge me farther than to say, "Do you... in faith?," I wear out my suit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means ...of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while." For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even t...o eat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, betwe...en the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, 'good for this generation only,' and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hard-hearted girl, get rid of these doubts... based on false rumor. It's not good to subject me to sorrow because of backbiters' words, or have you decided now, silly girl, that it's all true? Do to me what you will, sweetheart. Suit yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »