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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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‘<strong>The</strong> Compleat Angler’ (1653) pt. 1, ch. 1<br />

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews <strong>of</strong> virtue.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Compleat Angler’ (1653) pt. 1, ch. 2<br />

An excellent angler, and now with God.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Compleat Angler’ (1653) pt. 1, ch. 4<br />

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Compleat Angler’ (1653) pt. 1, ch. 5<br />

A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Compleat Angler’ (1653) pt. 1, ch. 5<br />

No man can lose what he never had.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Compleat Angler’ (1653) pt. 1, ch. 5<br />

In so doing, use him as though you loved him.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Compleat Angler’ (1653) pt. 1, ch. 8 (instructions for baiting a hook with a live frog)<br />

This dish <strong>of</strong> meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Compleat Angler’ (1653) pt. 1, ch. 8<br />

I love any discourse <strong>of</strong> rivers, and fish and fishing.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Compleat Angler’ (1653) pt. 1, ch. 18<br />

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for<br />

health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable <strong>of</strong>; a blessing that money cannot buy.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Compleat Angler’ (1653) pt. 1, ch. 21<br />

Let the blessing <strong>of</strong> St Peter’s Master be...upon all that are lovers <strong>of</strong> virtue; and dare trust in His<br />

providence; and be quiet; and go a-Angling.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Compleat Angler’ (1653) pt. 1, ch. 21<br />

But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked<br />

him; marked him for his own.<br />

‘Life <strong>of</strong> Donne’ (1640)<br />

<strong>The</strong> great Secretary <strong>of</strong> Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon.<br />

‘Life <strong>of</strong> Herbert’ (1670)<br />

Of this blest man, let his just praise be given,<br />

Heaven was in him, before he was in heaven.<br />

Written in Dr Richard Sibbes’s Returning Backslider, now preserved in Salisbury Cathedral Library<br />

11.17 Bishop William Warburton 1698-1779<br />

Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man’s doxy.<br />

To Lord Sandwich, in Priestley ‘Memoirs’ (1807) vol. 1, p. 372<br />

11.18 Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) 1834-67<br />

I now bid you a welcome adoo.<br />

‘Artemus Ward His Book’ ‘<strong>The</strong> Shakers’<br />

‘Mister Ward, don’t yur blud bile at the thawt that three million and a half <strong>of</strong> your culled

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