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"Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?""In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints."
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"Playing Solitaire is a non-smoking employee's smoke break."
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"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
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"A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing."
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"Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one."
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"England has forty-two religions and only two sauces."
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"God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh."
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"And then Mum spoons the coffee a little as if she's having fantasies of flinging it in Britt-Marie's face. But in a controlled way."
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"Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere."
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"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
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"First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can."
Victory
"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy."
Enemy
"I cannot command winds and weather."
Leadership
"Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be."
Business
"Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made."
Politics
"If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting."
Power
"In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them."
Will
"I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor."
Humor
"My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied."
Death
"Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year."
Truth
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