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"It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen."
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"Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life."
Life
"The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind."
Time
"It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea."
Man
"Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms."
Man
"Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her."
Family
"In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas."
People
"What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?"
Family
"They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World."
World
"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms."
Poetry
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