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How I do admire a man who can sit down & whale away with a pen just
the same as if it was fishing -- or something else as full of pleasure
& as void of labor. You would teach me fishing? Go to ____ you make me shudder. I
haven't caught a fish -- for "sport" -- in 42 years. I'd rather
lose a finger-joint, than see the poor devil struggle. Why, I don't get
any real satisfaction -- that is, any lasting satisfaction -- out of seeing
a man in pain. Except the missionary the other day. |
| You see, in our house there was a sort
of family prejudice against going fishing if you hadn't permission. But
it would frequently be bad judgment to ask. So I went fishing secretly,
as it were -- way up the Mississippi. - Speech, 7 March 1906 |
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Do not tell fish stories where the people
know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish. - More Maxims of Mark, Merle Johnson, 1927 |
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