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any port in a storm

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In desperate circumstances people will accept help from any source, including those they would normally shun: "'I have understood that there is a little feeling between you and Mr. Hand and the other gentlemen I have mentioned. But … I'm in a corner, and it's any port in a storm. If you want to help me I'll make the best terms I can, and won't forget the favor'" (Theodore Dreiser, The Titan, 1914). The proverb was first recorded in 1749, in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill.

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