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Why Sometimes I Hate Myself
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -- Bertrand Russell
icebraining
on Sept 16, 2014
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He actually probably never said that specific line. But he did write an essay called "In Praise Of Idleness":
http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
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Interesting backtracing of the origin of that quote:
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/
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Thanks I did not know that. I found this quote and attribution in [0]. (Sadly there were many other errors in that book.)
[0]
http://www.stroustrup.com/Tour.html
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