“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”
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At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
