There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life
Submitted by librariansti almost 2 years ago
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Help that lady to her feet and take care of her. How we supposed to get any ransom money for damaged goods?
Submitted by write-on-edges over 2 years ago
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
Submitted by laura over 2 years ago
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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates
Submitted by laura over 2 years ago
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I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. [...] to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate.
Submitted by laura over 2 years ago
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Mine is the name pirates fear the most: Edward “Snugglecakes” Van Helgen!
Submitted by pandorasinbox over 2 years ago
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I should like to know which is worse: to be raped a hundred times by negro pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgars, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fé, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -in short to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered- or simply to sit here and do nothing?
— Voltaire
Submitted by billfrist over 2 years ago
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The best way to profit from pirates is to copy them.
Submitted by KtAndersonBlogs almost 3 years ago
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If you pay money to see Pirates of the Caribbean […] it’s your own fault and you’re helping bring down the collapse of western civilization.
Submitted by laura almost 3 years ago
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