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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390964" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Our biggest fish</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When in the halcyon days of old, I was a little tyke,<br>I used to fish in pickerel ponds for minnows and the like;<br>And oh, the bitter sadness with which my soul was fraught<br>When I rambled home at nightfall with the puny string I'd caught!<br>And, oh, the indignation and the valor I'd display<br>When I claimed that all the biggest fish I'd caught had got away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes it was the rusty hooks, sometimes the fragile lines,<br>And many times the treacherous reeds would foil my just designs;<br>But whether hooks or lines or reeds were actually to blame,<br>I kept right on at losing all the monsters just the same--<br>I never lost a little fish--yes, I am free to say<br>It always was the biggest fish I caught that got away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so it was, when later on, I felt ambition pass<br>From callow minnow joys to nobler greed for pike and bass;<br>I found it quite convenient, when the beauties wouldn't bite<br>And I returned all bootless from the watery chase at night,<br>To feign a cheery aspect and recount in accents gay<br>How the biggest fish that I had caught had somehow got away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And really, fish look bigger than they are before they are before they're<br> caught--<br>When the pole is bent into a bow and the slender line is taut,<br>When a fellow feels his heart rise up like a doughnut in his throat<br>And he lunges in a frenzy up and down the leaky boat!<br>Oh, you who've been a-fishing will indorse me when I say<br>That it always is the biggest fish you catch that gets away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'T 'is even so in other things--yes, in our greedy eyes<br>The biggest boon is some elusive, never-captured prize;<br>We angle for the honors and the sweets of human life--<br>Like fishermen we brave the seas that roll in endless strife;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then at last, when all is done and we are spent and gray,<br>We own the biggest fish we've caught are those that got away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would not have it otherwise; 't is better there should be<br>Much bigger fish than I have caught a-swimming in the sea;<br>For now some worthier one than I may angle for that game--<br>May by his arts entice, entrap, and comprehend the same;<br>Which, having done, perchance he'll bless the man who's proud to say<br>That the biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</a><div class=q>
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I used to fish in pickerel ponds for minnows and the like;
And oh, the bitter sadness with which my soul was fraught
When I rambled home at nightfall with the puny string I'd caught!
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