---
title: "167 Patrick O'Brian Quotes - Famous Translator (Master and Commander)"
description: "Patrick O'Brian quotes on washing away disappointment, novel purpose, and marriage fascination."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b084/author-patrick-o-brian-2283.jpg"
---

![Portrait of Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b084/author-patrick-o-brian-2283.jpg)

# Patrick O'Brian

(1914–2000)   Translator   United Kingdom

 **167** quotes in **649** categories

Patrick O'Brian writes that salt water can wash away disappointment in just a week. He believes a novel’s job is to explore the human condition and how people feel. He also finds other people’s marriages endlessly fascinating. He also jokes about strange watch names like “dog watches.”

Rate this collection:  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★   No ratings yet

Patrick O'Brian was a translator from the United Kingdom, best known for *Master and Commander*.

## Quick Facts About Patrick O'Brian

Born December 12, 1914

Died January 2, 2000

Nationality United Kingdom

Profession Translator

Notable works Master and Commander

Known for Aubrey-Maturin series

Spouse Mary Wicksteed

## About Patrick O'Brian

The series, set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, follows Captain Jack Aubrey and physician Stephen Maturin. It consists of 20 novels, beginning with Master and Commander, praised for detailed historical detail and authentic language. A partially finished 21st novel was published after his death with handwritten pages.

## Awards & Honors

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

##  Quotes by Patrick O'Brian

> [Compulsion is the death of friendship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/compulsion-is-the-death-of-friendship/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Compulsion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/compulsion/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bba/patrick-o-brian-2283_compulsion_compulsion-is-the-death-of-friendship-21_2178051.png)

> [“I am so happy that you saw your epop.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/i-am-so-happy-that-you-saw-your-epop/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Happy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happy/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8c/patrick-o-brian-2283_happy_i-am-so-happy-that-you-saw-your-epop-415_415133.png)

> [“Wittles is up' said Killick”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/wittles-is-up-said-killick/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Football](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/football/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78e/patrick-o-brian-2283_football_wittles-is-up-said-killick-2889771_2889771.png)

> [Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/wit-is-the-unexpected-copulation-of-ideas/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Ideas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ed/patrick-o-brian-2283_ideas_wit-is-the-unexpected-copulation-of-idea_3208327.png)

> [I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/i-sew-his-ears-on-from-time-to-time-sure/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Ears](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ears/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94d/patrick-o-brian-2283_ears_i-sew-his-ears-on-from-time-to-time-sure_1006675.png)

> [“Sheep ain't poetical.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/sheep-ain-t-poetical/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Humor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/humor/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/451/patrick-o-brian-2283_humor_sheep-ain-t-poetical-1939459_1939459.png)

> [Jack, you've debauched my sloth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/jack-you-ve-debauched-my-sloth/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Drunk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/drunk/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b8/patrick-o-brian-2283_drunk_jack-you-ve-debauched-my-sloth-1876201_1876201.png)

> [“The back of my hand to guilt.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/the-back-of-my-hand-to-guilt/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Guilt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guilt/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e37/patrick-o-brian-2283_guilt_the-back-of-my-hand-to-guilt-1620432_1620432.png)

> [“I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/i-should-send-my-bees-ashore-for-you-upon-my-sacred-honour/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Bees](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bees/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c2/patrick-o-brian-2283_bees_i-should-send-my-bees-ashore-for-you-upo_929593.png)

> [That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/that-would-be-locking-the-horse-after-the-stable-door-is-gone-a-very/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Doors](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doors/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/576/patrick-o-brian-2283_doors_that-would-be-locking-the-horse-after-th_1592677.png)

> [After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/after-all-a-book-can-be-represented-as-a-conversation-with-one-s-demon/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f89/patrick-o-brian-2283_book_after-all-a-book-can-be-represented-as-a_456475.png)

> [The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/the-sensation-of-falling-into-the-past-is-not-unlike-that-of-coming/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Coming home](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/coming-home/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea9/patrick-o-brian-2283_coming-home_the-sensation-of-falling-into-the-past-i_2465096.png)

> [... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/it-has-always-seemed-to-me-that-books-are-the-supreme-decorations-of/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4e/patrick-o-brian-2283_book_it-has-always-seemed-to-me-that-books-ar_978199.png)

> [“You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/you-do-not-mean-there-is-danger-of-peace-cried-jack/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Danger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/danger/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fd/patrick-o-brian-2283_danger_you-do-not-mean-there-is-danger-of-peace_399897.png)

> [“I've come down from the mountains, with an ass-full of specimens...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/i-ve-come-down-from-the-mountains-with-an-ass-full-of-specimens/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Mountains](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mountains/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce1/patrick-o-brian-2283_mountains_i-ve-come-down-from-the-mountains-with-a_1282327.png)

> [“Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/any-innocent-pleasure-is-a-real-good-there-are-not-so-many-of-them/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Happiness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/061/patrick-o-brian-2283_happiness_any-innocent-pleasure-is-a-real-good-the_2818018.png)

> [In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/in-my-case-i-write-in-the-past-because-i-m-not-really-part-of-the/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[About](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/about/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/827/patrick-o-brian-2283_about_in-my-case-i-write-in-the-past-because-i_2076671.png)

> [Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/likings-arise-when-one-has-no-earthly-reason-for-liking-the-most/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Arise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arise/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/808/patrick-o-brian-2283_arise_likings-arise-when-one-has-no-earthly-re_1284328.png)

> [“It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon perpetually five miles ahead,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/it-all-gave-a-pleasant-illusion-of-eternity-this-quiet-sailing-under/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Eternity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eternity/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/391/patrick-o-brian-2283_eternity_it-all-gave-a-pleasant-illusion-of-etern_763522.png)

> [“Never mind the disappointment. Salt water will wash it away. You will be amazed how unimportant it will seem in a week’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/never-mind-the-disappointment-salt-water-will-wash-it-away-you-will/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Disappointment](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/disappointment/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/836/patrick-o-brian-2283_disappointment_never-mind-the-disappointment-salt-water_38368.jpg)

> [I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/i-know-of-few-men-over-50-that-seem-to-me-entirely-human-virtually/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Authority](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/authority/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/patrick-o-brian-2283_authority_i-know-of-few-men-over-50-that-seem-to-m_2770454.png)

> [...for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/for-very-strangely-his-officers-looked-upon-jack-aubrey-as-a-moral/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Figures](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/figures/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da6/patrick-o-brian-2283_figures_for-very-strangely-his-officers-looked-u_1557620.png)

> [Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/why-there-you-are-stephen-cried-jack-you-are-come-home-i-find-that-is/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Affectionate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affectionate/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88b/patrick-o-brian-2283_affectionate_why-there-you-are-stephen-cried-jack-you_377434.png)

> [“What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/what-s-wrong-with-captain-jack-aubrey-everything-since-he-has-a/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Captain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/captain/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9e/patrick-o-brian-2283_captain_what-s-wrong-with-captain-jack-aubrey-ev_2891119.png)

> [“Martin was a thoroughly amiable man, a man of wide reading, but when he came to write he mounted upon a pair…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/martin-was-a-thoroughly-amiable-man-a-man-of-wide-reading-but-when-he/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/patrick-o-brian-2283_books_martin-was-a-thoroughly-amiable-man-a-ma_1037384.png)

> [“There is nothing that interests me more than travel, I declare; and if I had had my health, I should have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/there-is-nothing-that-interests-me-more-than-travel-i-declare-and-if/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Cadence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cadence/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ead/patrick-o-brian-2283_cadence_there-is-nothing-that-interests-me-more_798448.png)

> [They will not be pleased. But they know we must catch the monsoon with a well-found ship; and they know they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/they-will-not-be-pleased-but-they-know-we-must-catch-the-monsoon-with/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Bed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bed/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/106/patrick-o-brian-2283_bed_they-will-not-be-pleased-but-they-know-w_684487.png)

> [“Hollom was going forward along the larboard gangway: Nagel, an able seamen but one of the most sullen, bloody-minded and argumentative of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/hollom-was-going-forward-along-the-larboard-gangway-nagel-an-able/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Aubrey-maturin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aubrey-maturin-12464/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d6/patrick-o-brian-2283_aubrey-maturin_hollom-was-going-forward-along-the-larbo_2082673.png)

> [“And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often away and handy about the house when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/and-although-in-many-cases-these-unions-proved-happy-enough-sailors/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Ball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ball/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/978/patrick-o-brian-2283_ball_and-although-in-many-cases-these-unions_1806256.jpg)

> [“I do not like to sound discontented neither,' said Pullings, 'nor to crab any ship I belong to; but between you and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/i-do-not-like-to-sound-discontented-neither-said-pullings-nor-to-crab/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Discontented](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discontented/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/036/patrick-o-brian-2283_discontented_i-do-not-like-to-sound-discontented-neit_967468.png)

> [“Nothing do I know of the law at all. But I do remember that the Bible likens human justice to a woman’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/nothing-do-i-know-of-the-law-at-all-but-i-do-remember-that-the-bible/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Justice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/justice/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/268/patrick-o-brian-2283_justice_nothing-do-i-know-of-the-law-at-all-but_2702855.png)

> [“All your sea-omens are of disaster; and of course, with man in his present unhappy state, huddled together in numbers far too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/all-your-sea-omens-are-of-disaster-and-of-course-with-man-in-his/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Disaster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/disaster/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87e/patrick-o-brian-2283_disaster_all-your-sea-omens-are-of-disaster-and-o_385846.jpg)

> [“They were furious. Did he not know he might catch cold? Why did he not answer their hail? It was no good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/they-were-furious-did-he-not-know-he-might-catch-cold-why-did-he-not/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[God love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/god-love/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27d/patrick-o-brian-2283_god-love_they-were-furious-did-he-not-know-he-mig_2102656.jpg)

> [“Physically he was tired and his body relaxed throughout its entire length; his mind was in much the same state, floating free,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/physically-he-was-tired-and-his-body-relaxed-throughout-its-entire/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Despair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/despair/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17c/patrick-o-brian-2283_despair_physically-he-was-tired-and-his-body-rel_225195.png)

> [“As it usually happened after an engagement, a heavy sadness was coming down over his spirits. To some degree it was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/as-it-usually-happened-after-an-engagement-a-heavy-sadness-was-coming/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/patrick-o-brian-2283_life_as-it-usually-happened-after-an-engageme_360322.png)

> [“Mr Babbington,' he said, suddenly stopping in his up and down. 'Take your hands out of your pockets. When did you last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/mr-babbington-he-said-suddenly-stopping-in-his-up-and-down-take-your/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Daily work](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/daily-work/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b5/patrick-o-brian-2283_daily-work_mr-babbington-he-said-suddenly-stopping_805928.jpg)

> [You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/you-are-to-consider-that-a-certain-melancholy-and-often-a-certain/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Able](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/able/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46b/patrick-o-brian-2283_able_you-are-to-consider-that-a-certain-melan_251179.jpg)

> [“Many complaints about his lack of discipline – independence – disobeying orders. No future in the service for that kind of officer,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/many-complaints-about-his-lack-of-discipline-independence-disobeying/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Discipline](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipline/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d9/patrick-o-brian-2283_discipline_many-complaints-about-his-lack-of-discip_415187.png)

> [Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/authority-is-a-solvent-of-humanity-look-at-any-husband-any-father-of/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Authority](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/authority/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/666/patrick-o-brian-2283_authority_authority-is-a-solvent-of-humanity-look_2639352.jpg)

> [“The event caused a certain amount of ribaldry and a fair number of sentences depriving men of their grog for playing the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/the-event-caused-a-certain-amount-of-ribaldry-and-a-fair-number-of/)

[Patrick O'Brian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/)

[Fool Offense](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fool-offense-3988551/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b88/patrick-o-brian-2283_fool-offense_the-event-caused-a-certain-amount-of-rib_1257930.png)

## Patrick O'Brian by topic

[Time (18)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/time/patrick-o-brian/) [Books (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/patrick-o-brian/) [Mind (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mind/patrick-o-brian/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/#itemlist",
            "name": "Patrick O'Brian Quotes",
            "numberOfItems": 40,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Compulsion is the death of friendship.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/compulsion-is-the-death-of-friendship/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bba/patrick-o-brian-2283_compulsion_compulsion-is-the-death-of-friendship-21_2178051.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bba/patrick-o-brian-2283_compulsion_compulsion-is-the-death-of-friendship-21_2178051.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bba/patrick-o-brian-2283_compulsion_compulsion-is-the-death-of-friendship-21_2178051.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Compulsion is the death of friendship.” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“I am so happy that you saw your epop.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/i-am-so-happy-that-you-saw-your-epop/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8c/patrick-o-brian-2283_happy_i-am-so-happy-that-you-saw-your-epop-415_415133.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8c/patrick-o-brian-2283_happy_i-am-so-happy-that-you-saw-your-epop-415_415133.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8c/patrick-o-brian-2283_happy_i-am-so-happy-that-you-saw-your-epop-415_415133.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I am so happy that you saw your epop.” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Wittles is up' said Killick”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/wittles-is-up-said-killick/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78e/patrick-o-brian-2283_football_wittles-is-up-said-killick-2889771_2889771.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78e/patrick-o-brian-2283_football_wittles-is-up-said-killick-2889771_2889771.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78e/patrick-o-brian-2283_football_wittles-is-up-said-killick-2889771_2889771.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Wittles is up' said Killick” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/wit-is-the-unexpected-copulation-of-ideas/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ed/patrick-o-brian-2283_ideas_wit-is-the-unexpected-copulation-of-idea_3208327.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ed/patrick-o-brian-2283_ideas_wit-is-the-unexpected-copulation-of-idea_3208327.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ed/patrick-o-brian-2283_ideas_wit-is-the-unexpected-copulation-of-idea_3208327.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/i-sew-his-ears-on-from-time-to-time-sure/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94d/patrick-o-brian-2283_ears_i-sew-his-ears-on-from-time-to-time-sure_1006675.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94d/patrick-o-brian-2283_ears_i-sew-his-ears-on-from-time-to-time-sure_1006675.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94d/patrick-o-brian-2283_ears_i-sew-his-ears-on-from-time-to-time-sure_1006675.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 6,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Sheep ain't poetical.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/sheep-ain-t-poetical/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/451/patrick-o-brian-2283_humor_sheep-ain-t-poetical-1939459_1939459.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/451/patrick-o-brian-2283_humor_sheep-ain-t-poetical-1939459_1939459.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/451/patrick-o-brian-2283_humor_sheep-ain-t-poetical-1939459_1939459.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Sheep ain't poetical.” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 7,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Jack, you've debauched my sloth.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/jack-you-ve-debauched-my-sloth/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b8/patrick-o-brian-2283_drunk_jack-you-ve-debauched-my-sloth-1876201_1876201.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b8/patrick-o-brian-2283_drunk_jack-you-ve-debauched-my-sloth-1876201_1876201.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b8/patrick-o-brian-2283_drunk_jack-you-ve-debauched-my-sloth-1876201_1876201.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Jack, you've debauched my sloth.” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 8,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“The back of my hand to guilt.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/the-back-of-my-hand-to-guilt/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e37/patrick-o-brian-2283_guilt_the-back-of-my-hand-to-guilt-1620432_1620432.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e37/patrick-o-brian-2283_guilt_the-back-of-my-hand-to-guilt-1620432_1620432.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e37/patrick-o-brian-2283_guilt_the-back-of-my-hand-to-guilt-1620432_1620432.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The back of my hand to guilt.” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 9,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/i-should-send-my-bees-ashore-for-you-upon-my-sacred-honour/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c2/patrick-o-brian-2283_bees_i-should-send-my-bees-ashore-for-you-upo_929593.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c2/patrick-o-brian-2283_bees_i-should-send-my-bees-ashore-for-you-upo_929593.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c2/patrick-o-brian-2283_bees_i-should-send-my-bees-ashore-for-you-upo_929593.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 10,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/that-would-be-locking-the-horse-after-the-stable-door-is-gone-a-very/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/576/patrick-o-brian-2283_doors_that-would-be-locking-the-horse-after-th_1592677.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/576/patrick-o-brian-2283_doors_that-would-be-locking-the-horse-after-th_1592677.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/576/patrick-o-brian-2283_doors_that-would-be-locking-the-horse-after-th_1592677.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 11,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/after-all-a-book-can-be-represented-as-a-conversation-with-one-s-demon/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f89/patrick-o-brian-2283_book_after-all-a-book-can-be-represented-as-a_456475.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f89/patrick-o-brian-2283_book_after-all-a-book-can-be-represented-as-a_456475.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f89/patrick-o-brian-2283_book_after-all-a-book-can-be-represented-as-a_456475.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 12,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/the-sensation-of-falling-into-the-past-is-not-unlike-that-of-coming/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea9/patrick-o-brian-2283_coming-home_the-sensation-of-falling-into-the-past-i_2465096.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea9/patrick-o-brian-2283_coming-home_the-sensation-of-falling-into-the-past-i_2465096.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea9/patrick-o-brian-2283_coming-home_the-sensation-of-falling-into-the-past-i_2465096.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 13,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/it-has-always-seemed-to-me-that-books-are-the-supreme-decorations-of/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4e/patrick-o-brian-2283_book_it-has-always-seemed-to-me-that-books-ar_978199.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4e/patrick-o-brian-2283_book_it-has-always-seemed-to-me-that-books-ar_978199.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4e/patrick-o-brian-2283_book_it-has-always-seemed-to-me-that-books-ar_978199.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 14,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“You do not mean there is danger of peace?\", cried Jack.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/you-do-not-mean-there-is-danger-of-peace-cried-jack/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fd/patrick-o-brian-2283_danger_you-do-not-mean-there-is-danger-of-peace_399897.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fd/patrick-o-brian-2283_danger_you-do-not-mean-there-is-danger-of-peace_399897.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fd/patrick-o-brian-2283_danger_you-do-not-mean-there-is-danger-of-peace_399897.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“You do not mean there is danger of peace?\", cried Jack.” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 15,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“I've come down from the mountains, with an ass-full of specimens...”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/i-ve-come-down-from-the-mountains-with-an-ass-full-of-specimens/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce1/patrick-o-brian-2283_mountains_i-ve-come-down-from-the-mountains-with-a_1282327.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce1/patrick-o-brian-2283_mountains_i-ve-come-down-from-the-mountains-with-a_1282327.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce1/patrick-o-brian-2283_mountains_i-ve-come-down-from-the-mountains-with-a_1282327.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I've come down from the mountains, with an ass-full of specimens...” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 16,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/any-innocent-pleasure-is-a-real-good-there-are-not-so-many-of-them/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/061/patrick-o-brian-2283_happiness_any-innocent-pleasure-is-a-real-good-the_2818018.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/061/patrick-o-brian-2283_happiness_any-innocent-pleasure-is-a-real-good-the_2818018.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/061/patrick-o-brian-2283_happiness_any-innocent-pleasure-is-a-real-good-the_2818018.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them.” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 17,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/in-my-case-i-write-in-the-past-because-i-m-not-really-part-of-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/827/patrick-o-brian-2283_about_in-my-case-i-write-in-the-past-because-i_2076671.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/827/patrick-o-brian-2283_about_in-my-case-i-write-in-the-past-because-i_2076671.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/827/patrick-o-brian-2283_about_in-my-case-i-write-in-the-past-because-i_2076671.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 18,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/likings-arise-when-one-has-no-earthly-reason-for-liking-the-most/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/808/patrick-o-brian-2283_arise_likings-arise-when-one-has-no-earthly-re_1284328.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/808/patrick-o-brian-2283_arise_likings-arise-when-one-has-no-earthly-re_1284328.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/808/patrick-o-brian-2283_arise_likings-arise-when-one-has-no-earthly-re_1284328.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 19,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon perpetually five miles ahead, never nearer.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/it-all-gave-a-pleasant-illusion-of-eternity-this-quiet-sailing-under/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/391/patrick-o-brian-2283_eternity_it-all-gave-a-pleasant-illusion-of-etern_763522.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/391/patrick-o-brian-2283_eternity_it-all-gave-a-pleasant-illusion-of-etern_763522.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/391/patrick-o-brian-2283_eternity_it-all-gave-a-pleasant-illusion-of-etern_763522.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 20,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Never mind the disappointment. Salt water will wash it away. You will be amazed how unimportant it will seem in a week’s time – how everything will fall into place.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/never-mind-the-disappointment-salt-water-will-wash-it-away-you-will/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/836/patrick-o-brian-2283_disappointment_never-mind-the-disappointment-salt-water_38368.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/836/patrick-o-brian-2283_disappointment_never-mind-the-disappointment-salt-water_38368.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/836/patrick-o-brian-2283_disappointment_never-mind-the-disappointment-salt-water_38368.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Never mind the disappointment. Salt water will wash it away. You will be amazed how unimportant it will seem…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 21,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/i-know-of-few-men-over-50-that-seem-to-me-entirely-human-virtually/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/patrick-o-brian-2283_authority_i-know-of-few-men-over-50-that-seem-to-m_2770454.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/patrick-o-brian-2283_authority_i-know-of-few-men-over-50-that-seem-to-m_2770454.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/patrick-o-brian-2283_authority_i-know-of-few-men-over-50-that-seem-to-m_2770454.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 22,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "...for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/for-very-strangely-his-officers-looked-upon-jack-aubrey-as-a-moral/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da6/patrick-o-brian-2283_figures_for-very-strangely-his-officers-looked-u_1557620.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da6/patrick-o-brian-2283_figures_for-very-strangely-his-officers-looked-u_1557620.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da6/patrick-o-brian-2283_figures_for-very-strangely-his-officers-looked-u_1557620.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“...for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 23,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/why-there-you-are-stephen-cried-jack-you-are-come-home-i-find-that-is/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88b/patrick-o-brian-2283_affectionate_why-there-you-are-stephen-cried-jack-you_377434.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88b/patrick-o-brian-2283_affectionate_why-there-you-are-stephen-cried-jack-you_377434.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88b/patrick-o-brian-2283_affectionate_why-there-you-are-stephen-cried-jack-you_377434.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 24,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?\" \"Everything, since he has a command and I have not.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/what-s-wrong-with-captain-jack-aubrey-everything-since-he-has-a/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9e/patrick-o-brian-2283_captain_what-s-wrong-with-captain-jack-aubrey-ev_2891119.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9e/patrick-o-brian-2283_captain_what-s-wrong-with-captain-jack-aubrey-ev_2891119.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9e/patrick-o-brian-2283_captain_what-s-wrong-with-captain-jack-aubrey-ev_2891119.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?\" \"Everything, since he has a command and I have not.” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 25,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Martin was a thoroughly amiable man, a man of wide reading, but when he came to write he mounted upon a pair of stilts, unusually lofty stilts, and staggered along at a most ungracious pace, with an occasional awkward lurch into colloquialism, giving a strikingly false impression of himself.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/martin-was-a-thoroughly-amiable-man-a-man-of-wide-reading-but-when-he/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/patrick-o-brian-2283_books_martin-was-a-thoroughly-amiable-man-a-ma_1037384.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/patrick-o-brian-2283_books_martin-was-a-thoroughly-amiable-man-a-ma_1037384.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/patrick-o-brian-2283_books_martin-was-a-thoroughly-amiable-man-a-ma_1037384.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Martin was a thoroughly amiable man, a man of wide reading, but when he came to write he mounted upon a pair…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 26,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“There is nothing that interests me more than travel, I declare; and if I had had my health, I should have been a great traveller, a second–a second–\" \"St Paul?\" \"No, no. A second Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/there-is-nothing-that-interests-me-more-than-travel-i-declare-and-if/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ead/patrick-o-brian-2283_cadence_there-is-nothing-that-interests-me-more_798448.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ead/patrick-o-brian-2283_cadence_there-is-nothing-that-interests-me-more_798448.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ead/patrick-o-brian-2283_cadence_there-is-nothing-that-interests-me-more_798448.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“There is nothing that interests me more than travel, I declare; and if I had had my health, I should have…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 27,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "They will not be pleased. But they know we must catch the monsoon with a well-found ship; and they know they are in the Navy--they have chosen their cake, and must lie on it.' You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it.' No, no, it is not quite that either. I mean--I wish you would not confuse my mind, Stephen.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/they-will-not-be-pleased-but-they-know-we-must-catch-the-monsoon-with/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/106/patrick-o-brian-2283_bed_they-will-not-be-pleased-but-they-know-w_684487.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/106/patrick-o-brian-2283_bed_they-will-not-be-pleased-but-they-know-w_684487.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/106/patrick-o-brian-2283_bed_they-will-not-be-pleased-but-they-know-w_684487.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“They will not be pleased. But they know we must catch the monsoon with a well-found ship; and they know they…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 28,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Hollom was going forward along the larboard gangway: Nagel, an able seamen but one of the most sullen, bloody-minded and argumentative of the Defenders, was coming aft on the same narrow passage. They were abreast of one another; and Nagel walked straight on without the slightest acknowledgement other than a look of elaborate unconcern.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/hollom-was-going-forward-along-the-larboard-gangway-nagel-an-able/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d6/patrick-o-brian-2283_aubrey-maturin_hollom-was-going-forward-along-the-larbo_2082673.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d6/patrick-o-brian-2283_aubrey-maturin_hollom-was-going-forward-along-the-larbo_2082673.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d6/patrick-o-brian-2283_aubrey-maturin_hollom-was-going-forward-along-the-larbo_2082673.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Hollom was going forward along the larboard gangway: Nagel, an able seamen but one of the most sullen…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 29,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often away and handy about the house when ashore, it did make for a curious gathering when the spouses were invited to a ball.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/and-although-in-many-cases-these-unions-proved-happy-enough-sailors/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/978/patrick-o-brian-2283_ball_and-although-in-many-cases-these-unions_1806256.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/978/patrick-o-brian-2283_ball_and-although-in-many-cases-these-unions_1806256.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/978/patrick-o-brian-2283_ball_and-although-in-many-cases-these-unions_1806256.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often away…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 30,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“I do not like to sound discontented neither,' said Pullings, 'nor to crab any ship I belong to; but between you and me, Doctor, between you and me, she is more what we call a floating coffin than a ship.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/i-do-not-like-to-sound-discontented-neither-said-pullings-nor-to-crab/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/036/patrick-o-brian-2283_discontented_i-do-not-like-to-sound-discontented-neit_967468.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/036/patrick-o-brian-2283_discontented_i-do-not-like-to-sound-discontented-neit_967468.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/036/patrick-o-brian-2283_discontented_i-do-not-like-to-sound-discontented-neit_967468.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I do not like to sound discontented neither,' said Pullings, 'nor to crab any ship I belong to; but between…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 31,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Nothing do I know of the law at all. But I do remember that the Bible likens human justice to a woman’s unclean rag—quasi pannus menstruate—and I have little faith in truth as an immediate safeguard, in this world.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/nothing-do-i-know-of-the-law-at-all-but-i-do-remember-that-the-bible/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/268/patrick-o-brian-2283_justice_nothing-do-i-know-of-the-law-at-all-but_2702855.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/268/patrick-o-brian-2283_justice_nothing-do-i-know-of-the-law-at-all-but_2702855.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/268/patrick-o-brian-2283_justice_nothing-do-i-know-of-the-law-at-all-but_2702855.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Nothing do I know of the law at all. But I do remember that the Bible likens human justice to a woman’s…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 32,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“All your sea-omens are of disaster; and of course, with man in his present unhappy state, huddled together in numbers far too great and spending all his surplus time and treasure beating out his brother's brains, any gloomy foreboding is likely to be fulfilled; but your corpse, your parson, your St Elmo's fire is not the cause of the tragedy.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/all-your-sea-omens-are-of-disaster-and-of-course-with-man-in-his/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87e/patrick-o-brian-2283_disaster_all-your-sea-omens-are-of-disaster-and-o_385846.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87e/patrick-o-brian-2283_disaster_all-your-sea-omens-are-of-disaster-and-o_385846.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87e/patrick-o-brian-2283_disaster_all-your-sea-omens-are-of-disaster-and-o_385846.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“All your sea-omens are of disaster; and of course, with man in his present unhappy state, huddled together…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 33,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“They were furious. Did he not know he might catch cold? Why did he not answer their hail? It was no good his telling them he had not heard; they knew better; he had not got flannel ears--Why had he not waited for them? --What was a boat for? Was this a proper time to go a-swimmin? -- Did he think this was midsummer? Or Lammas? -- He was to see how cold he was, blue an trembling like a fucking jelly -- Would a new-joined ships boy have done such a wicked thing? No, sir, he would not. -- What would the skipper, what would Mr Pullings and Mr Babbington say, when they heard of his capers? -- As God loved them, they had never seen anything so foolish: he might strike them blind, else. -- Where had he left his intellectuals? Aboard the sloop? They dried him with handkerchiefs., dressed him by force, and rowed him quickly back to the Polychrest . He was to go below directly, turn in between blankets--no sheets, mind--with a pint of grog and have a good sweat. he was to go up the side now, like a Christian and nobody would notice. Plaice and Lakey were perhaps the strongest men in the ship, with arms like gorillas; they thrust him aboard and hurried him to his cabin without so much as by your leave, and left him there in the charge of his servant, with recommenations for his present care.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/they-were-furious-did-he-not-know-he-might-catch-cold-why-did-he-not/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27d/patrick-o-brian-2283_god-love_they-were-furious-did-he-not-know-he-mig_2102656.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27d/patrick-o-brian-2283_god-love_they-were-furious-did-he-not-know-he-mig_2102656.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27d/patrick-o-brian-2283_god-love_they-were-furious-did-he-not-know-he-mig_2102656.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“They were furious. Did he not know he might catch cold? Why did he not answer their hail? It was no good his…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 34,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Physically he was tired and his body relaxed throughout its entire length; his mind was in much the same state, floating free, detached, as though he had taken his old favourite, the tincture of laudanum. He felt no particular anxiety. The attempt must either succeed or fail: he hoped with all his heart for success, but 'all his heart' did not amount to a great deal now that some essential part of its core seemed to have died. Yet on the other hand he felt more able to command success in that it meant no less to him - to command it with a strength that arose not from a fundamental indifference to his own fate but from something resembling it that he could not define; it had a resemblance to despair, but a despair long past, with the horror taken out of it.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/physically-he-was-tired-and-his-body-relaxed-throughout-its-entire/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17c/patrick-o-brian-2283_despair_physically-he-was-tired-and-his-body-rel_225195.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17c/patrick-o-brian-2283_despair_physically-he-was-tired-and-his-body-rel_225195.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17c/patrick-o-brian-2283_despair_physically-he-was-tired-and-his-body-rel_225195.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Physically he was tired and his body relaxed throughout its entire length; his mind was in much the same…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 35,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“As it usually happened after an engagement, a heavy sadness was coming down over his spirits. To some degree it was the prodigious contrastbetween two modes of life: in violent hand-to-hand fighting threr was no room for time, reflexion, enmity or even pain unless it was disabling; everything moved with extreme speed, cut and parry with a reflex as fast as a sword-thrust, eyes automatically keeping watch on three or four men within reach, arm lunging at the first hint of a lowered guard, a cry to warn a friend, a roar to put an enemy off his stroke; and all this in an extraordinarily vivid state of mind, a kind of fierce exaltation, an intense living in the most immediate present.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/as-it-usually-happened-after-an-engagement-a-heavy-sadness-was-coming/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/patrick-o-brian-2283_life_as-it-usually-happened-after-an-engageme_360322.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/patrick-o-brian-2283_life_as-it-usually-happened-after-an-engageme_360322.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/patrick-o-brian-2283_life_as-it-usually-happened-after-an-engageme_360322.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“As it usually happened after an engagement, a heavy sadness was coming down over his spirits. To some degree…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 36,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Mr Babbington,' he said, suddenly stopping in his up and down. 'Take your hands out of your pockets. When did you last write home?' Mr Babbington was at an age when almost any question evokes a guilty response, and this was, in fact, a valid accusation. He reddened, and said, 'I don't know, sir.' 'Think, sir, think,' said Jack, his good-tempered face clouding unexpectedly...'Never, mind. Write a handsome letter. Two pages at least. And send it in to me with your daily workings tomorrow. Give your father my compliments and tell him my bankers are Hoares.' For Jack, like most other captains, managed the youngsters' parental allowance for them. 'Hoares,' he repeated absently once or twice, 'my bankers are Hoares,' and a strangled ugly crowing noise made him turn. Young Ricketts was clinging to the fall of the main burton-tackle in an attempt to control himself, but without much success.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/mr-babbington-he-said-suddenly-stopping-in-his-up-and-down-take-your/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b5/patrick-o-brian-2283_daily-work_mr-babbington-he-said-suddenly-stopping_805928.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b5/patrick-o-brian-2283_daily-work_mr-babbington-he-said-suddenly-stopping_805928.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b5/patrick-o-brian-2283_daily-work_mr-babbington-he-said-suddenly-stopping_805928.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Mr Babbington,' he said, suddenly stopping in his up and down. 'Take your hands out of your pockets. When…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 37,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals ill-temper. On reaching the middle years a man perceives that he is no longer able to do certain things, that what looks he may have had are deserting him, that he has a ponderous great belly, and that however much he may yet burn he is no longer attractive to women; and he rebels. Fortitude, resignation and philosophy are of more value than any pills, red, white or blue.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/you-are-to-consider-that-a-certain-melancholy-and-often-a-certain/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46b/patrick-o-brian-2283_able_you-are-to-consider-that-a-certain-melan_251179.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46b/patrick-o-brian-2283_able_you-are-to-consider-that-a-certain-melan_251179.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46b/patrick-o-brian-2283_able_you-are-to-consider-that-a-certain-melan_251179.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 38,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Many complaints about his lack of discipline – independence – disobeying orders. No future in the service for that kind of officer, above all with St Vincent at the Admiralty. And then I fear he may not attend to the fifth commandment quite as he should.’ The girls’ faces took on an inward look as they privately ran over the Decalogue: in order of intelligence a little frown appeared on each as its owner reached the part about Sunday travelling, and then cleared as they carried on to the commandment the Admiral had certainly intended.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/many-complaints-about-his-lack-of-discipline-independence-disobeying/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d9/patrick-o-brian-2283_discipline_many-complaints-about-his-lack-of-discip_415187.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d9/patrick-o-brian-2283_discipline_many-complaints-about-his-lack-of-discip_415187.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d9/patrick-o-brian-2283_discipline_many-complaints-about-his-lack-of-discip_415187.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Many complaints about his lack of discipline – independence – disobeying orders. No future in the service…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 39,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch.Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/authority-is-a-solvent-of-humanity-look-at-any-husband-any-father-of/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/666/patrick-o-brian-2283_authority_authority-is-a-solvent-of-humanity-look_2639352.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/666/patrick-o-brian-2283_authority_authority-is-a-solvent-of-humanity-look_2639352.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/666/patrick-o-brian-2283_authority_authority-is-a-solvent-of-humanity-look_2639352.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 40,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“The event caused a certain amount of ribaldry and a fair number of sentences depriving men of their grog for playing the God-damned fool, an offense that came under Article Thirty-six 'All other crimes not capital, committed by any person or persons in the fleet, which are not mentioned in this act, or for which no punishment is hereby directed to be inflicted, shall be punished according to the laws and customs in such cases used at sea,' also known as the captain's cloak or cover-all.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patrick O'Brian"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-o-brian/the-event-caused-a-certain-amount-of-ribaldry-and-a-fair-number-of/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b88/patrick-o-brian-2283_fool-offense_the-event-caused-a-certain-amount-of-rib_1257930.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b88/patrick-o-brian-2283_fool-offense_the-event-caused-a-certain-amount-of-rib_1257930.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b88/patrick-o-brian-2283_fool-offense_the-event-caused-a-certain-amount-of-rib_1257930.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The event caused a certain amount of ribaldry and a fair number of sentences depriving men of their grog for…” — Patrick O'Brian",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "Person",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/#person",
            "name": "Patrick O'Brian",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/",
            "image": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b084/author-patrick-o-brian-2283.jpg",
            "description": "Patrick O'Brian, born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator best known for his Aubrey–Maturin sea novel series."
        },
        {
            "@type": "ProfilePage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/",
            "name": "Patrick O'Brian",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/#person"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bba/patrick-o-brian-2283_compulsion_compulsion-is-the-death-of-friendship-21_2178051.png"
            },
            "description": "Patrick O'Brian quotes on washing away disappointment, novel purpose, and marriage fascination.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Authors",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/authors/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Patrick O'Brian",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-o-brian/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```