The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. - Jorge Luis Borges

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Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.

Jorge Luis Borges

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

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