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>"I've been thinking. Tomorrow it will be seventeen years to the day that I've been in the service. Seventeen years in peace and war. I don't suppose I've been at home more than four months in all that time. Still, it's been a good life. I love the sea. I wouldn't have had it any other way. But there are times when suddenly you realise you're nearer the end than the beginning. And you wonder, you ask yourself, what the sum total of your life represents, what difference your being there at any time made to anything, or if it made any difference at all really. Particularly in comparison with other people’s careers. I don't know whether that kind of thinking is very healthy, but I must admit I've had some thoughts on those lines from time to time. But tonight—tonight!"
