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George Bernard Shaw Quotes: Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.
         

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.


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