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

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging 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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The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. – William Hazlitt

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Comedy naturally wears itself out — destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. – William Hazlitt

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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. – Samuel Johnson

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As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness! – Albert Camus

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Fifteen men on the Dead Mans Chest – Young Ewing Allison

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A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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