"There are many men that are by others taken to be serious grave men, which we contemn and pitie; men of soure complexions; money-getting men, that spend all their time first in getting and next in anxious care to keep it, men that are condemn'd to be rich, and always discontented, or busie. For these poor rich men, wee Anglers pitie them"
Isaak Walton 'The Complete Angler'
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