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It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

— William McFee Casuals of the Sea (1916)

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People don't ever seem to realise that doing what's right's no guarantee against misfortune.

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Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

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If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

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Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

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