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Charles Dudley Warner

"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."

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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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"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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"They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure."

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

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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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