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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.

— Leigh Hunt The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events (1848)

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The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Table-Talk (1851)

Stolen sweets are always sweeter,
Stolen kisses much completer,
Stolen looks are nice in chapels,
Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

The two divinest things this world has got,
A lovely woman in a rural spot!

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Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

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