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shipwrecked

«Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety»
«They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds»
«Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.»
«Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness»
«Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.»
«Old age is a shipwreck.»
«Despite the fact that there are over eight million people on the island of Manhattan, there are times you still feel shipwrecked and alone. Times even the most resourceful survivor would feel the need to put a message in a bottle, or on an answering machi»
«He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune»
«I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.»
«A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say 'How to Build a Boat»

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