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Coming up unto them, there has passed some cannon shot between some of our fleet and some of them, and so far as we perceive they are determined to sell their lives with blows.

— Francis Drake

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I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman.

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

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