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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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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. – Joseph Conrad

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. – 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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Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever? – Daniel Daly

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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else. – Oliver Cromwell

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Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule — these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature. – Bhagavad Gita

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It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. – Eric Bently

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Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence…. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. – Okakura Kakuzō

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed. – Nikos Kazantzakis

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