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"If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck."

"For what it's worth: trust your feelings. I can't promise that you'll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it."

"For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it."

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
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"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."

"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."

"I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting."

"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."

"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool."
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