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The mate was fixed by the bos’n’s pike,
The bos’n brained with a marlinspike.

— Young E. Allison

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I might almost define a lie as being the narrative of a human event that had been printed.

Hitchcock (1914)

’Twas a cutlass swipe, or an ounce of lead,
Or a yawing hole in a battered head—

Old straight whiskey! That is the drink of life—
Consolation, family, friends and wife!
So make your glasses ready,
Pour fingers three, then—steady!
“Here’s good luck to Kentucky and whiskey straight!”

The great muse of History ranks first in dignity, power and usefulness; but who will say that at her court the Prime Minister is not the Novel which by its lightness, grace and address has popularized history all over the world?

Hitchcock (1914)

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