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The yachtsman leaves no tracks. A thousand keels may plough a strait, but they leave it virgin. Except for desert and the snows, there is hardly an inch of land on the round earth where man has not left his mark again and again; but most of the surface of the ocean is to-day as if Man had not been created.

Richard Hughes

Has there ever been a revolution which didn't end in less freedom? Because, has there ever been a revolution which wasn't essentially just one more desperate wriggle by mankind to escape from freedom.

Richard Hughes

Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish-spawn. It's not just getting them killed in wars: mere middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.

Richard Hughes

Richard Hughes

Richard Hughes

Born: April 19, 1900

Died: April 28, 1976 (aged 76)

Bio: Richard Arthur Warren Hughes was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.

Known for:

A High Wind in Jamaica (1929)
The Fox in the Attic (1961)
In hazard (1938)
The wooden shepherdess (1973)

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