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"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
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"Reading... a vacation for the mind...."
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"Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, fireworks?"
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"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."
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"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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"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
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"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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"Nice passion is reading."
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"I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible."
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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."
Art
"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
Society
"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help."
Knowledge
"We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it."
Society
"People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception."
People
"It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous."
Ignorance
"Politics makes strange bedfellows."
Politics
"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."
Gardening
"Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being."
Power
"How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man."
Love
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