Quotations about:
    shipwreck

GONZALO: Beseech you, sir, be merry. You have cause —
So have we all — of joy, for our escape
Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe
Is common; every day some sailor’s wife,
The masters of some merchant, and the merchant
Have just our theme of woe. But for the miracle —
I mean our preservation — few in millions
Can speak like us. Then wisely, good sir, weigh
Our sorrow with our comfort.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet

Tempest, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 1ff (2.1.1-9) (1611)
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