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If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep,
The sky if no longer dark tempests deform;
When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep?
No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!

— George Canning

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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908)

I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.

And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,
Black ’s not so black,—nor white so very white.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

No, here ’s to the pilot that weathered the storm!

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

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