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"I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest."
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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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"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."
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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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"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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"There's no taking trout with dry breeches."
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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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"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
Money

"Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue."
Virtue

"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

"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

"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
Blame

"It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld."
People

"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

"There is nothing so habit-forming as money."
Money
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