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Izaak Walton

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

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

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"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."

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