Captain James Cook

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    Stay on the beach. The natives over there are cannibals. They eat liars with the same enthusiasm as they eat honest men.
    Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Captain Nemo (James Mason)

    I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
    —Alice James (1848–1892)

    There’s terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you’re born with these so-called defects you have a very good chance of getting to the top.
    —Peter Cook (b. 1937)