A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Source:The Journal (December 28, 1852); The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., ed. 1906), Volume X, Chapter VIII, Page 432
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