"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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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.

— John Gay