“Let me tell you, here are some colours, contemptible as they seem here, that are very hard to be got; and scarce any one of them, which, if it should be lost, I should not miss and be concerned about the loss of it too, once in the year.”

Defending the value of seemingly trivial fishing colours to a sceptical visitor · The Compleat Angler (dialogue on fly-fishing materials)

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