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

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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

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There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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