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Mark Twain2 quotes
It’s lovely to live on a raft. — Mark Twain · 1884We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. — Mark Twain · 1884Kenneth Grahame1 quote
There is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. — Kenneth Grahame · 1908Samuel Johnson1 quote
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. — Samuel Johnson · 1773