Sir Thomas Browne

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“I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman.... I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.”
—Francis, Sir Drake (1540–1596)

“I am the long world’s gentleman, he said,
And share my bed with Capricorn and Cancer.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.”
—Thomas Browne (1605–1682)