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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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"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."
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Personal Development
"Nice passion is reading."
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Personal Development
"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."
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"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
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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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"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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Personal Development
"Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside."
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"The act of fishing " for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available " is enough."
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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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"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals."
Humor
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
Happiness
"The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them."
Travel
"The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it."
World
"It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought."
Thought
"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."
Humor
"A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there."
Nothing
"The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them."
Past
"The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth."
Rights
"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth."
Truth
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