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They lied about it! The enemy boils the ocean, cooks the sixth fleet and every man, woman and child within fifty miles of a shoreline - you could expect some coverage. What did they report? Minor soil erosion in the Florida Keys. They boiled the ocean, woman!

— Arthur M. Jolly

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Marriage is the safe harbor men proffer from a tempest they themselves conjure into creation.

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A servant is the true reflection of his master.

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One of those monstrosities that nature so cruelly inflicts upon her world, like a two headed calf or a servant with ginger eyebrows.

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Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.

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