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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 is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."
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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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"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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"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
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"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."
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"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world."
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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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"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."
Gift
"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
Leisure
"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
Society
"Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire."
People
"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."
Art
"The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different."
Life
"Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration."
Family
"There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you."
Values
"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."
Land
"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help."
Knowledge
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