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What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck; I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte, (Aug 15 1769-1821), French soldier, emperor; He established the Napoleonic Code, 1804-10 as the French legal system; remembered for his defeat at Waterloo, 1815.

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