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Doubt Not But Angling Will Prove To Be So Pleasant That It Will Prove To Be, Like Virtue, A Reward To Itself.
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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
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