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• Any worthwhile expedition can be planned on the back of an envelope.
  • Commenting on the spare Alpine style promoted by Tilman and Eric Shipton

• To marry a woman will cost you much trouble;
  But to fit out a ship the expenses are double!
  Hang the expense! Put another pea in the soup!
  • Both of the above to the writer, whilst fitting out Baroque at Lymington.

• The inside of a boat should be like the inside of a church, open from end to end.

• Cross the river before reviling the crocodile's mother.

• When they bring you a heifer, be ready with the rope!