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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. – Joseph Conrad

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Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. – Joseph Conrad

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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of ones enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with ones friends. – Joseph Conrad

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The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. – Sir Winston Churchill

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War is too important a matter to be left to the military. – Georges Clemenceau

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Drinking is the soldiers pleasure. – John Dryden

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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. – Ambrose Bierce

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