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Quotes from The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events — Leigh Hunt

1784–1859 England

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Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.

The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events (1848)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leigh Hunt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.