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"Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."
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"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
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"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."
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