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The image of the lighted ship sliding under the waves, while the band carried on regardless, captured the public’s imagination.

— Steve Turner The Band That Played On (2011)

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“No praise could be sufficient for those courageous musicians whom we left behind. They were heroes to a man.”

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In the whole history of the sea, there is little to equal the wonderful behavior of these humble players.

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There is not in history a more splendid and inspiring example of self-control, of self-sacrifice, of courage and of manliness.

The Band That Played On (2011)

“The ship’s orchestra of eight young men were standing knee deep in water playing.”

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“They were brave and splendid, all the men. They died like brave men.”

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

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An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

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Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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