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Quote by Joseph Conrad
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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The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. – Joseph Conrad

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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. – 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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The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. – Sir Winston Churchill

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The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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