"Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it……" — Elsa Maxwell

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• When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the… — John Henrik Clarke
• The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. — Phyllis McGinley
• There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life. — Arnold Haultain
• What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works.… — Aldo Leopold
• If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a… — Milton Friedman
• The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it… — Nelson Algren
• There is no business, no avocation, whatever, which will not permit a man, who has the inclination, to give a… — Unknown Author
• For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life. — Wynn Bullock
• In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which… — Alfred North Whitehead
• The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills,… — William Osler
• My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight. — Robert Frost
• All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be… — Eugene Field

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