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We cannot steer our drifting raft, nor stem the resistless current; but we have it in our power to behave decently, to share the meagre stock of victuals fairly as long as they last, to take the good and evil as it comes, and even to hope, if we choose to do so, for a fair haven.

— Frederick York Powell The Pilgrims' Way: A Little Scrip of Good Counsel for Travellers by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1907)

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It was a soufflé of a speech, light, pleasant, digestible, and nourishing also.

Poor playthings of the man that's gone,
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