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There are offences given and offences not given but taken. – Izaak Walton

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

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I have laid aside business, and gone afishing. – Izaak Walton

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Business

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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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