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"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."
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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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"Nice passion is reading."
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Personal Development
"Extend your vacation whenever possible."
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"The act of fishing " for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available " is enough."
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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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"They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure."
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"They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together."
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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."
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"Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure."
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"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
Dream
"The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles."
Communication
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
Wisdom
"Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without."
Love
"I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics."
Reflection
"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."
Inspirational
"Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution."
Nature
"May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!"
Love
"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."
Focus
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
Education
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