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• Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Author's Preface...
• Angling is somewhat like poetry,--men are to be born so.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 1...
• Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Author's Preface...
• No man can lose what he never had. -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap.
  v...
• I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse
  and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a fishing....
• It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 1...
• An excellent angler, and now with God. -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap.
  iv...
• Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 1...
• I am, sir, a Brother of the Angle. -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap.
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