title: Dickens as Satirist (Study in English)
author:  Sylvia Bank Manning 
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  # The Wreck of the Golden Mary
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Charles Dickens
  
  
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  This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old, and I have
  
  
  encountered a great deal of rough weather, both literal and
  
  
  metaphorical. It has always been my opinion since I first possessed
  
  
  such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject
  
  
  is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the
  
  
  course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and
  
  
  although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say,
  
  
  to have an intelligent interest in most things.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A person might suppose, from reading the above, that I am in the
  
  
  habit of holding forth about number one. That is not the case.
  
  
  Just as if I was to come into a room among strangers, and must
  
  
  either