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“We are an Island. Every soldier that wants to go anywhere out of England - a sailor has got to carry him there on his back.”
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II, i, 43–4.
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“E's a sort of a bloomin' cosmopolouse—soldier an' sailor too.”
"Soldier an' Sailor Too", Stanza 2 (1896).
The Seven Seas (1896)
“Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.”
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Source: Willa Cather in Europe (1956), Ch. 4 (16 July 1902)
Speech in Dublin (28 November, 1913).