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Scaling the world’s highest mountain is a very different experience than it was when I climbed it.
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A whole two days off from work, in which we can do what we please, has only recently become a near-universal right. What we choose to do looks increasingly like work, and idleness has acquired a bad name. Herein, a history of leisure. (From 1991)
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“There is no logical reason why a man who has the misfortune to break his leg, or to contract an illness that confines him to his house, should therefore lose his right to vote.” (From 1900)
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