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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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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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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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Personal Development
"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
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"That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."
Business
"No man can lose what he never had."
Man
"The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping."
Conscience
"God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."
God
"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."
Virtue
"I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning."
Friendship
"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."
Leisure
"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."
Leisure
"Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things."
God
"I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing."
Business
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