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"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."
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"We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing."
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"But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago."
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"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."
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"Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament."
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"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."
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"I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest."
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"There's no taking trout with dry breeches."
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"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
Poetry

"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
Money

"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
Control

"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
Happiness

"The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality."
Quality

"I would rather start a family than finish one."
Family

"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
People

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
Earth

"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram."
Art

"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves."
Reading
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