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Wide Open Fall Walleye's ... With the fish unwilling to use much energy to search for food, targeting open water fish this time of year is very effective...

Patio Pet Doors For Dogs Open Doors For Kindness ... Many pet owners live in houses located in the suburbs with perhaps a backyard or patio for the pet to wander about when it's not in the house. For people who own pets, there has always been the complaint about letting the pet in and out of the house...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one’s existence as a full human being and one’s existence as a sexual being—while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up. Normally we don’t experience, at least don’t want to experience, our sexual fulfillment as distinct from or opposed to our personal fulfillment. But perhaps in part they are distinct, whether we like it or not.
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

For these Canadian houses have no front door, properly speaking. Every part is for the use of the occupant exclusively, and no part has reference to the traveler or to travel. Every New England house, on the contrary, has a front and principal door opening to the great world, though it may be on the cold side, for it stands on the highway of nations, and the road which runs by it comes from the Old World and goes to the far West; but the Canadian’s door opens into his backyard and farm alone, and the road which runs behind his house leads only from the church of one saint to that of another.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 6:6.

The words were rendered by Samuel Johnson in the opening lines of The Ant: “Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise.”