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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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"Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, fireworks?"

"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."

"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."

"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."

"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."

"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."

"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."
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"I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning."

"Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art."
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