1653 · Skopia

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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."

The Compleat Angler · 1653

★ 3.6

No man can lose what he never had.

The Compleat Angler · 1653

★ 3.6

No man ever repented that he arose from the table sober, healthful, and with his wits about him.

The House of Feasting · 1653

★ 3.5

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

The Compleat Angler · 1653

★ 1.9

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

The Compleat Angler · 1653

★ 1.9

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

The Compleat Angler · 1653

★ 1.9

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

The Compleat Angler · 1653

★ 1.1

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.

The Compleat Angler · 1653

★ 1.0