Charles Cotton Quote

And an ingenious Spaniard says, that "rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate and fools to pass by without consideration."


The Complete Angler, Part I, First Day (p. 31), Routledge, Warnes & Routledge. 1859


And an ingenious Spaniard says, that rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate and fools to pass by...

And an ingenious Spaniard says, that rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate and fools to pass by...

And an ingenious Spaniard says, that rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate and fools to pass by...

And an ingenious Spaniard says, that rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate and fools to pass by...