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Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching. -- Christina Baker Kline
There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life. -- Arnold Haultain
The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. -- Phyllis McGinley
For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life. -- Wynn Bullock
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. -- Elsa Maxwell
Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars -- Curtis LeMay
My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight. -- Robert Frost
To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good. -- Dorothea Dix
The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potionsâ?¦ -- William Osler
But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight. -- Robert Frost
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. -- Nelson Algren
The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation. -- H. L. Mencken
There is no business, no avocation, whatever, which will not permit a man, who has the inclination, to give a little time, every day, to study. -- Daniel Albert Wyttenbach
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over. -- Eugene Field
What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land? -- Aldo Leopold
If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed. -- Milton Friedman

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