"We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler……" — Izaak Walton

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• Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not… — Izaak Walton
• Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point. — Thomas McGuane
• There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. — Washington Irving
• Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so... — Izaak Walton
• You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world… — Izaak Walton
• The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and… — Theodore Gordon
• The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports. — Lord Byron
• Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish. — Rafael Sabatini
• After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of… — Leo Tolstoy
• Angling is an Art... an art worth your learning. — Izaak Walton
• It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. — Stephen Leacock
• Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and… — Samuel Johnson

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