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Quote by Samuel Johnson
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. – Samuel Johnson

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Government
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Samuel Johnson
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson

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Fish, Fishing
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Samuel Johnson
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Other Quotes from
Hunting
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I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
His hide is sure to flatten em. – Hilaire Belloc

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Hunting

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. – Charles Dickens

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Hunting

One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. – Oscar Wilde

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Hunting

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. – George Bernard Shaw

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Hunting

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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful – unless one was striving for mediocrity. – William Hurt

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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. – John Lubbock

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