A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.

Published on March 9, 2016 , under Quotes
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A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.

Source: John Augustus Shedd, Salt from My Attic (1928), The Mosher Press, Portland, Maine; cited in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006) ed. Fred R. Shapiro, p. 705; there are numerous variants of this expression.

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