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Government and legislation! these I thought were respectable professions. We have heard of heaven-born Numas, Lycurguses, and Solons, in the history of the world, whose names at least may stand for ideal legislators; but think of legislating to regulate the breeding of slaves, or the exportation of tobacco! What have divine legislators to do with the exportation or the importation of tobacco? what humane ones with the breeding of slaves? Suppose you were to submit the question to any son of God,—and has He no children in the Nineteenth Century? is it a family which is extinct?—in what condition would you get it again? What shall a state like Virginia say for itself at the last day, in which these have been the principal, the staple productions? What ground is there for patriotism in such a State? I derive my facts from statistical tables which the States themselves have published.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
Fun Facts About Fish Friends! ... The habit of capturing and keeping fish in an enclosed pool goes back thousands of years, civilizations as old as the Egyptians finding the beauty of nature's swimmers too great to leave to the sea. Today you can do the same without going to the trouble of capturing wild fish, instead relying on your local pet or fish store...