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Leslie Knope2 quotes
We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third. — Leslie Knope · 2011So it’s been three months of no work, no meetings, no memos, no late nights, nothing. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. — Leslie Knope · 2011Alfred Tennyson1 quote
Ah, why
Should life all labor be? — Alfred Tennyson · 1832Izaak Walton1 quote
I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing. — Izaak Walton · 1653Robert Louis Stevenson1 quote
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1877Rudyard Kipling1 quote
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies. — Rudyard Kipling · 1888William Shakespeare1 quote
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. — William Shakespeare · 1597