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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Fly fishing may...
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Source: Attrib. in Instructions to Young Sportsmen, (Hawker)
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.