“Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.”
— Walter Scott, book The Antiquary
Volume I, Ch. 11.
The Antiquary (1816)
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