George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Providence
  • Trusts
  • Skipper