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A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.

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Zane Grey
Age: 67 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 31
Died: 1939
Died: October 23
Author
Baseball Player
Dentist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Zanesville
Ohio
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Angling
Sea
Interfere
Unless
Lakes
Philosophy
Fishing
Ways
Fishes
Happy
Boat
Way
Hated
Good
Rivers

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