HMS Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin #3)
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how very much he needs someone to look after him. He really is not fit to wander about the world alone; it is so hard to unworldly people.
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God go with you and may no new thing arise.
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Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role.
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‘Why, my dear, I am no great friend to marriage, as you know; and sometimes I wonder whether you may not set too great a store on a contract compelling you to be happy