A large ocean liner

A large ocean liner
A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out
  

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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.
There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.
Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.
The present is never a happy state to any being
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.
Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.
No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .
There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.