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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
         

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.


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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
         



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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.



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