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Very Quotes by Patrick O'Brian
- Touch and away, Jack?’ asked Stephen. ‘Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?’…
- Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying…
- For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even…
- For my own part,' said Captain Aubrey, 'I have no notion of disliking a man for his beliefs, above all if he was born with…
- ...for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...
- That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.
- I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.
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