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“Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.”

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John Simon was a renowned author, born on May 12, 1925, and passed away in 1981. His works spanned various literary genres, including novels, poetry, and drama. Simon was known for his profound insights and unique narrative style, and his works have had a profound impact on the literary world. more

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“Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.”

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Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

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“. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.”

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“Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.”

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“When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!”

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Book:The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:

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“Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.”

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Book:The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

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“...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.”

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“Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness”

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“We did have three go to the YMCA.”

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“The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns - these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century”

“With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.”

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