“I have lived now for over a century, yet I can still say with complete confidence that no one can claim to have plumbed the depths of human misery who has not shared the fore-ends of a submarine with a camel.”
“I have lived now for over a century, yet I can still say with complete confidence that no one can claim to have plumbed the depths of human misery who has not shared the fore-ends of a submarine with a camel.”
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“It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.”
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“In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.”
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