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• 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...
• As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
  -- 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.
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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...
• We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap.
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• An excellent angler, and now with God. -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap.
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• This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 8...
• Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Compleat Angler, Part i, Chap. ii...
• I am, sir, a Brother of the Angle. -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap.
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