Part I, ch. 1.
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Quotes from book
The Compleat Angler
Izaak Walton
Original title
The Compleat Angler. Or The Contemplative Man's Recreation
(British English, 1653)
The Compleat Angler is a book by Izaak Walton. It was first published in 1653 by Richard Marriot in London.
Part I, ch. 2.
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Part I, ch. 8.
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“Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.”
Part I, ch. 2.
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“Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.”
Epistle to the Reader.
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Epistle to the Reader.
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“As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.”
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“As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.”
Epistle to the Reader.
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“I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.”
Epistle to the Reader.
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“This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.”
Part I, ch. 8.
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Epistle to the Reader.
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Part I, ch. 1.
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Part I, ch. 5. Referring to William Butler, styled by Dr. Fuller in his "Worthies" (Suffolk) the "Æsculapius of our age." He died in 1621. This first appeared in the second edition of "The Angler," 1655. Roger Williams, in his "Key into the Language of America," 1643, p. 98, says: "One of the chiefest doctors of England was wont to say, that God could have made, but God never did make, a better berry".
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Part I, ch. 21.
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