If there is one thing in the world that will make a man peculiarly and insufferably self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.
 Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (1869). copy citation

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Author Mark Twain
Source The Innocents Abroad
Topic sea stomach
Date 1869
Language English
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“One’s safest course that day was to clasp a railing and hang on; walking was too precarious a pastime. By some happy fortune I was not seasick.—That was a thing to be proud of. I had not always escaped before. If there is one thing in the world that will make a man peculiarly and insufferably self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick. Soon a venerable fossil, shawled to the chin and bandaged like a mummy, appeared at the door of the after deck-house, and the next lurch of the ship shot him into my arms. I said: “Good-morning, Sir.” source