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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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Personal Development
"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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Personal Development
"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
"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
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Personal Development
"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."
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Personal Development
"Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure."
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Personal Development
"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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"Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk."
Adventure
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
Adventure
"Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know."
People
"Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy."
Animals
"The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place."
Literature
"A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces."
Travel
"Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger."
Animals
"Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island."
Animals
"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."
Leisure
"Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings."
Humor
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