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From: Henry Van Dyke's "Fisherman's Luck"
There is nothing that attracts the human nature more powerfully than the
sport of tempting the unknown with a fishing-line.
The best way of escape from this Toedium vitae (tedium of the day??) is
through a recreation like angling, not only because it is so evidently a matter of luck, but also because it tempts us into a wilder, freer life.
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The attraction of angling for all the ages of man, from the cradle to the grave, lies in its uncertainty. 'Tis an affair of luck.
Pride is surely the most unbecoming of all vices in a fisherman. For though
intelligence and practice and patience and genius, and many other noble things which modesty forbids him to mention, enter into his pastime, ... yet, because fortune still plays a controlling hand in the game, its net
results should never be spoken of with a haughty and vain spirit.
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