"Yet there have been, and there still are, many who take a seeming
delight in telling you how many conquests they have made, and they not
infrequently have the bad taste to explain with wearisome prolixity the
ways and the means whereby those conquests were wrought; as, forsooth,
an unfeeling huntsman is forever boasting of the game he has slaughtered
and is forever dilating upon the repulsive details of his butcheries."
~The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
“The best anglers in the world are those who do not catch fish; the
mere slaughter of fish is simply brutal….”
~The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
Eugene Field
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