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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did."

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, introduction.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, introduction.

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

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics, that it can never be fully learnt.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, introduction.

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I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, pt. 1, ch. 18.

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You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit, and a world of other blessings attending upon it.

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