Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them. ✨ Patrick O'Brian (1990). Ma…

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Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them. ✨ Patrick O'Brian (1990). Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1), p.130, W. W. Norton & Company
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