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Fragile Things (2006)
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“Tell that to the marines—the sailors won't believe it.”
Walter Scott
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Redgauntlet, Vol. II (1824), Ch. 13 http://books.google.com/books?id=ixkGAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Tell+that+to+the+marines+the+sailors+won't+believe+it%22&pg=PA326#v=onepage.
“But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices?”
Source: Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891), Ch. 2
Context: But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.
“Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.”
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“E's a sort of a bloomin' cosmopolouse—soldier an' sailor too.”
Rudyard Kipling
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"Soldier an' Sailor Too", Stanza 2 (1896).
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Fritz Sauckel
(1894–1946) German general
Quoted in "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal" - Nuremberg, Germany - 1948.