“An excellent angler, and now with God.”
Izaak Walton book The Compleat Angler
Part I, ch. 4.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
“If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?”
Source: The Little Big Things: 163 Ways To Pursue Excellence (2010), p. 9.
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