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"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."
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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."
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"I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste."
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"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
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"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world."
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"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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"I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible."
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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."
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"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."
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"Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art."
Nature
"That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."
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"No man can lose what he never had."
Man
"The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping."
Conscience
"God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."
God
"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."
Virtue
"I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning."
Friendship
"God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart."
God
"Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things."
God
"I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing."
Business
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