E.C.

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Sir Isaac Newton was, it is well known, extremely fond of employing his

leisure hours in fishing. Being one day asked by a fellow-collegian how it

happened that so vast a genius could stoop to a pursuit so trifling at the

best, replied, "How is it possible that you should be surprised at my being

_a lover of the angle?_"

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