We Are Closer To The Ants Than To The Butterflies. Very Few People Can Endure Much Leisure.

We Are Closer To The Ants Than To The Butterflies. Very Few People Can Endure Much Leisure.

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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies.
Very few people can endure much leisure.
-- Gerald Brenan

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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
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