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“Fortune favors the prepared mind.”

Posted on 05/09/2013 by Marc Fauvet

quote by Louis Pasteur, untitled drawing by Takashi Kuwahara

'changing flies' by Takashi Kuwahara

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“And so with skill of the anglers the men circumvent the fish by the following artful contrivance. They wrap the hook in scarlet wool, and to the wool they attach two feathers that grow beneath a cocks wattles and are the colour of wax. The fishing-rod is of six feet long, and so is the line. So they let down this lure, and the fish attracted and excited by colour, comes meet it, and fancying from the beauty of the of the sight that he is going to have a wonderful banquet,opens wide his mouth, is entangled with the hook, and gains a bitter feast , for he is caught.” →

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