Mark Anthony (Royal Navy officer)
Overview
 
Mark Anthony of Carrigcastle (1786 – 1 June 1867) was an officer in the 19th century Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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As a 15 year old, he boarded the Milford
Milford, County Cork
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 packet
Packet trade
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 in Checkpoint in 1801 and, a week later on 14 July, he had joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman on board the sloop
Sloop
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  (18 guns) which was then in berth at Portsmouth
HMNB Portsmouth
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. He was serving on her when she had 15 men killed in an unsuccessful action off the west coast of Cuba
Cuba
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 towards the close of 1803.
Quotations

A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind.

Ali, A Hundred Sayings

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

Thomas Carlyle, Rectorial Address at Edinburgh, 2nd April 1886

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Will Cuppy, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, 1950

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Robert J. Hanlon, Murphy's Law book two: More reasons why things go wrong! (1980) ISBN 0843106743 by Arthur Bloch|Arthur Bloch page 52.  

"Folly is as great as the sea. It can compass anything."

Antef, Nomarch|Nomarch of Thebes, Egypt|Thebes, in Bolesław Prus's novel Pharaoh (novel)|Pharaoh (1895), chapter 61.

A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.

Ed Solomon|Ed Solomon, screenplay, Men in Black

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, Pt. ii

Weapons-Grade Stupidity: Tech-support slang for customer intelligence that is so low it poses a severe hazard to those who come in contact with it.

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