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"When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away fr..." — Herbert Hoover

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover President • American
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