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Famous quotes containing the words boat and/or cuttlefish:

    “When the boat reaches midstream, it is too late to mend the leaks.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)