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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."
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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."
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"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."
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"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."
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"Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure."
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"Nice passion is reading."
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"Reading... a vacation for the mind...."
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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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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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"They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together."
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"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."
Hope
"Art is the objectification of feeling."
Creativity
"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it."
Courage
"He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great."
Courage
"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke."
Humor
"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation."
Courage
"There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."
Nature
"There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is."
Wisdom
"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things."
Courage
"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."
Truth
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