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Quote by William Hazlitt
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may. – William Hazlitt

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Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met. – Bill Fitch

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It is people who make me seasick—not the sea. But I am afraid that science has yet to find a solution for this ailment. – Albert Einstein, 1930

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