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Being in a...

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Being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Source: quoted in James Boswell, 'Life of Johnson', 1759
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.


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