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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

— Spanish Proverb

Painterly empty hammock between two potted palms on a sunlit terrace overlooking blue water.
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The proverb playfully praises idleness as a pleasure in itself, and rest afterward as a further pleasure.

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