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Topic·Work-life balance✕clear

Essay

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1877

★ 3.6

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

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

Parks and Recreation · 2011

★ 2.1

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

So 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

Parks and Recreation · 2011

★ 2.1

Play · History (play)

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1 · 1597

★ 2.0

Poem

Ah, why Should life all labor be?

Alfred Tennyson

Poems · 1832

★ 2.0

Treatise

I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.

Izaak Walton

The Compleat Angler · 1653

★ 1.9

Short story

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies.

Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom Rickshaw · 1888

★ 1.2

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