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“You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll beworking pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.”
“Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again. 'May I presume to suggest,' yelled Shandy giddily to Davies, 'that we ...”
“Oh, that's great. That way, when things have quieted down, and we come up for air, or money, or re-supply, we'll get a nice explosive package from him that says "so nice to see you again" in a way ...”
“Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!”
“In order to avoid shipwreck, wise people usually appoint one captain to navigate the ship.”
“Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back.”
“There was a warrior once who foughtAgainst man's subtlest, mightiest foe,And more than valiant deeds he wroughtT' effect th' enslaver's overthrow.But ah! how dread was his campaign,Forc'd in the wi...”
“To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck "Slackeye" Roberts”
“I lost my temper," I finish. "I lost my temper. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.""Well, no one means to lose their temper, my boy," the Captain smiles. "If they did, it wouldn't be lost.”
“It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”
“Be a master of yourself.”
“Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.”
“So I come back again to the condition that the Golden Rule, if one adopts it, is a difficult master to serve. The ships captain will not throw the compass overboard because the wind blows fair and ...”
“The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.”
“Am I making myself clear, Orrin? I don't regret how I've lived these past few years. I move where I will. I set no appointments. I guard no borders. What landbound king has the freedom of a ship's ...”
“I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.”
“In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.”
“On any given day, Ossifar Distana carried around 5000 passengers, the actual figure varying slightly depending on where she was on the vast elliptical cruise that took her around the Terran Empire....”
“the problem at this point is that there is a problem.”
