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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: so readily, is a complex sentiment wherein pride enters for much,
necessity for not a little, and the love of ships - the untiring
servants of our hopes and our self-esteem - for the best and most
genuine part. For the hundreds who have reviled the sea, beginning
with Shakespeare in the line
"More fell than hunger, anguish, or the sea,"
down to the last obscure sea-dog of the "old model," having but few
words and still fewer thoughts, there could not be found, I
believe, one sailor who has ever coupled a curse with the good or
bad name of a ship. If ever his profanity, provoked by the
hardships of the sea, went so far as to touch his ship, it would be
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