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There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

Izaak Walton

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Izaak Walton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1593
Born: August 9
Died: 1683
Died: December 15
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Stafford
Staffordshire
Isaak Walton
Izaak Walton
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Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.
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