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

"Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art."
Nature

"I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning."
Friendship

"No man can lose what he never had."
Man

"That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."
Business

"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."
Virtue

"The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping."
Conscience

"God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."
God

"I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing."
Business
