John Dryden, Sixth Satire of Juvenal, line 760.
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Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands, And, with his compass, measures seas and lands.
— John Dryden on Navigation
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Source: Wikiquote: "Navigation" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 548-50.)
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