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Quote by Richard Jefferies
The great sea makes one a great sceptic. - Richard Jefferies

The great sea makes one a great sceptic. – Richard Jefferies

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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. – Joseph Conrad

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Water flows humbly to the lowest level.
Nothing is weaker than water,
Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong,
Nothing surpasses it. – Lao-Tzu

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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. – Robert Henri

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Upon my soul, this water tastes quite nice. I wonder what vintage now?… It tastes just like the year 1881 tasted. – G.K. Chesterton, The Flying Inn, 1914

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