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• The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and orname
  it is its ancient and natural strength,--the floating bulwark of our island....
• The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue, a custom whereof the memory of man runneth not howsomever to the contrary, nohow.
• He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap....
• Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little thing
  and thence proceed to greater. -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xviii...
• Custom reconciles us to everything. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- On the Sublime and Beautiful, Sect.
  xviii, Vol. i, p. 231...
• No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
  -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- The Leviathan, Part i, Chap. xviii...