Sir Alexander Peacock

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“We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.”
—Humphrey, Sir Gilbert (c.1537–1583)

“The rich man goes out yachting,
Where sanctity can’t pursue him;
The poor goes afloat
In a fourpenny boat,
Where the bishop groans to view him.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)