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Praise the sea; on shore remain. - John Florio

Praise the sea; on shore remain. – John Florio

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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. – Joan Didion

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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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Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. – Dame Edith Sitwell

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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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Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington

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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

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There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold. – Henry David Thoreau

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