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Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for ma

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

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

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Nature
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Ambrose Bierce
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A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce

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Cynicism
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Ambrose Bierce
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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. – Samuel Butler

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The sea is as near as we come to another world. – Anne Stevenson, “North Sea Off Carnoustie”

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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. – W. H. Auden

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Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. – H.M. Tomlinson

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I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. – Angela Carter

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Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. – Charles du Bos

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