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Urban prepping spans a wide range of actions, attitudes, equipment, and intensity. This makes sense since people live in a variety of settings, and very few are able to wander out into nature and live off the land. You do not have to go wild construc
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“Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.'
That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.”
― H.M.S. Surprise
That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.”
― H.M.S. Surprise
“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.”
― Post Captain
― Post Captain
“Jack, you've debauched my sloth.”
― H.M.S. Surprise
― H.M.S. Surprise
“They will not be pleased. But they know we must catch the monsoon with a well-found ship; and they know they are in the Navy--they have chosen their cake, and must lie on it.'
You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it.'
No, no, it is not quite that either. I mean--I wish you would not confuse my mind, Stephen.”
― H.M.S. Surprise
You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it.'
No, no, it is not quite that either. I mean--I wish you would not confuse my mind, Stephen.”
― H.M.S. Surprise
“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.”
― Post Captain
Why,' said Stephen, 'it is because they are curtailed of course.”
― Post Captain
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