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“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”

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Patrick O'Brian The Hundred Days

Quelle: The Hundred Days

“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either, which is infamous, or, which is imbecile.”

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Patrick O'Brian buch Master and Commander

Quelle: Master and Commander (1970)
Kontext: “But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”

“I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.”

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Patrick O'Brian buch Post Captain

Quelle: Post Captain

“Jack, you have debauched my sloth.”

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Patrick O'Brian

HMS Surprise (1973)
Quelle: H.M.S. Surprise

“We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth”

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Patrick O'Brian

“I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.”

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Patrick O'Brian buch Post Captain

Quelle: Post Captain

““This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches--why are they called dog watches? Where, heu, heu, is the canine connection?'
Why,' said Stephen, 'it is because they are curtailed of course.””

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Patrick O'Brian buch Post Captain

Quelle: Post Captain (1972)

“Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.”

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Patrick O'Brian buch The Commodore

Quelle: The Commodore (1995)

“Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.”

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Patrick O'Brian

Quelle: H.M.S. Surprise

“And pray, what in sea language is meant by a ship?”

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Patrick O'Brian buch Master and Commander

"She must have three square-rigged masts, sir," they told him kindly, "and a bowsprit; and the masts must be in three - lower, top and topgallant - for we never call a polacre a ship."
Master and Commander (1970)

“Come," he said, taking her by the hand and leading her to a distant sopha, "come and sit by me, and let us talk of bats.”

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Patrick O'Brian buch The Unknown Shore

The Unknown Shore (1959).

“… He is not very sharp in some ways; and in his simple view of the world, paederasts are dangerous only to powder-monkeys and choir boys, or to those epicene creatures that are to be found in Mediterranean brothels. I made circuitous attempt at enlightening him a little, but he looked very knowing and said, 'Don't tell me about rears and vices; I have been in the Navy all my life.'"
"Then surely he must be wanting a little in penetration?”

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Patrick O'Brian buch Master and Commander

"James, I trust there was no mens rea in that remark?"
Master and Commander (1970) ("rears and vices" is O'Brian's homage to Jane Austen's Mansfield Park)