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Quote by John Steinbeck
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. – John Steinbeck

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. – John Steinbeck

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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. – John Steinbeck

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Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish. – William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954

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All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish. – Harold F. Blaisdell, The Philosophical Fisherman, 1969

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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. – Dave Barry

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…of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy. – William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954

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