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William McFee [1881-1966] American
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William McFee was an English writer of sea stories. His parentage was Canadian.


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There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
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A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
102
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
103
Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
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If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
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It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.
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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
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Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.
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Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
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