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There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true that the best surf around here tends to happen in winter, so you need a good wetsuit, and the time window of good waves is often pretty short, so you have to stay on top of the forecasts.


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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with t...
WILLIAM PENN For we put the power in the people.
WILLIAM PENN They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
WILLIAM PENN I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any singl...
WILLIAM PITT Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE