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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 seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. – John Steinbeck

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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. – Author Unknown

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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. – John Buchan

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Good things come to those who bait. – Author Unknown

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The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. – A.K. Best

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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. – Michel de Montaigne

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