I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the m… — Henry David Thoreau

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Henry David ThoreauAuthor · American · 1817 – 1862

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