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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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"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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"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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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."
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"I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while."
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"Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside."
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"You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud."
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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
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"The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it."
World

"Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature."
Nature

"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
Leisure

"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization."
Civilization

"We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh."
Love

"The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them."
Travel

"The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them."
Past

"Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about."
Conversation

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."
Humor

"It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more."
Friendship
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