"But the standing toast that pleased me most
Was, "The wind that blows,
the ship that goes,
And the lass that loves a sailor!" Charles Dibdin
(03/04/1745 – 07/25/1814)
English writer
"But the standing toast 
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Sir Arthur James Balfour
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Josephine Tey
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Eric Hoffer
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Elias Canetti
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Estelle Getty
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Walter Payton
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John Schlesinger