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Quote by Izaak Walton
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can neve

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. – Izaak Walton

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I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. – Izaak Walton

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Morning
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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; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. – Izaak Walton

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Fish, Fishing
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But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,
Is wetter water, slimier slime!
And there (they trust) there swimmeth One
Who swam ere rivers were begun,
Immense, of fishy form and mind,
Squamous, omnipotent, and kind. – Rupert Brooke

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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson

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Fish, Fishing

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. – Henry David Thoreau

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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. – Don Marquis

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Fish, Fishing

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