To know someone truly, look at what he does when no one is paying him.
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Work and Leisure
Busyness is the cause, and cure, of a pointless life.
For one blessed hour before bed, we get a book or guitar and do what we want instead of what we must. One hour of the day is the raison d'être of the other twenty-three.
Why do cheerleaders, ostensibly the team's official and most fervent fans, stand with their backs to the field the entire game?
Research, before it yields solutions, multiplies problems.
We groan under the law and forget that our own hands carved the tablets. Why not smash them instead of obey them?
Living fully in the present requires living partly in the past.
The cure for depression is not hope, but a to-do list.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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