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The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul.

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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever bee...more

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And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank

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And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no di...more

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This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men...more