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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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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? – Joseph Conrad

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. – Joseph Conrad

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What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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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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