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I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.Patrick OBrian
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I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.Patrick OBrian
3
Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras — ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don't signify, much.Patrick OBrian
4
Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.Patrick OBrian
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There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.Patrick OBrian
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A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; the thoughts flashed into being in a hundred simultaneous forms, with a thousand associations, and the speaking mind selected one, forming it grossly into the inadequate symbols of words, inadequate because common to disparate situations - admitted to be inadequate for vast regions of expression, since for them there were the parallel languages of music and painting. Words were not called for in many or indeed most forms of thought: Mozart certainly thought in terms of music. He himself at this moment was thinking in terms of scent. .Patrick OBrian
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How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuckPatrick OBrian
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The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.Patrick OBrian