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Quote by Samuel Butler
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that h

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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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. – Samuel Butler

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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. – Robert Henri

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Of a water that flows,
With a lullaby sound,
From a spring but a very few
Feet under ground —
From a cavern not very far
Down under ground. – Edgar Allan Poe

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The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country. – Author Unknown

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The sea hath no king but God alone. – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship

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