Master & Commander

"Come," he said, taking her by the hand and leading her to a distant sopha, "come and sit by me, and let us talk of bats."

"And pray, what in sea language is meant by a ship?" "She must have three square-rigged masts, sir," they told him kindly, "and a bowsprit; and the masts must be in three - lower, top and topgallant - for we never call a polacre a ship."

“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”