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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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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."

"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."

"Reading... a vacation for the mind...."

"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."

"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."

"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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"There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you."

"Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it."

"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help."

"It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous."

"Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments."

"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."

"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."
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