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Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be,
That may both werken wel and hastily. 4
This wol be done at leisure parfitly.
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The Merchant's Tale, l. 585.

 

Geoffrey Chaucer

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I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,
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And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

 

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Cato tells us that Publius Scipio, who was called Africinus, used to say that he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

 

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