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We Can Pay Our Debts To The Past By Putting The Future In Debt To Ourselves.

Civilization Is A Conspiracy. Modern Life Is The Silent Compact Of Comfortable Folk To Keep Up Pretences.

The Sea Has Formed The English Character And The Essential England Is To Be Found In Those Who Follow It. From Blue Waters They Have Learned Mercifulness, And They Have Also Learned - In The Grimmest Of Schools - Precision And Resolution. The Sea Endures No Makeshifts. If A Thing Is Not Exactly Right It Will Be Vastly Wrong.

It Was Foreordained That I Should Go Alone To Umvelos', And In The Promptings Of My Own Infallible Heart I Believed I Saw The Workings Of Omnipotence. Such Is Our Moral Arrogance, And Yet Without Such A Belief I Think That Mankind Would Have Ever Been Content To Bide Sluggishly At Home.

The Book Trade Is A Spiritual Barometer Of A Nations Well-being.