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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."
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"Nice passion is reading."
"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."
"Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside."
"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."
"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."
"Extend your vacation whenever possible."
"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."
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"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."
"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."
"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."
"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."
"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"
"When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion."
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