Benjamin Franklin: Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will…
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never; so that, as poor Richard says, a life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things.
In today’s wordsLeisure is time for doing something useful. The diligent person gets it; the lazy person never does. As Poor Richard says, a life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
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