I shall stay no longer than to wish him a rainy day to read this... discourse and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.
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We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.'Izaak Walton
Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
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Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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In so doing, use him as though you loved him.
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