Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. …

Samuel Johnson
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. ✨ Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 16 Mar. 1759)
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