#served

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

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If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved. ↗

— Russell Lynes

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In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other. ↗

— Charles Lyell

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My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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