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“He is never less at leisure than when at leisure.”
Provenance
- Source:
- De Officiis. iii. 1.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 72ae6b5fbec6ee40dd335d2c0715580ace54e973d7c74fff0933fc478489e4b8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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