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"Why is it that we honor the Great Thieves of Whitehall, for Acts that in Whitechapel would merit hanging? Why admire the one sort of Thief, and despise the other? I suggest, 'tis because of the Scale of the Crime… Let Antony lose the world for Cleopatra, to be sure,— not Dick his Day's Wages, at the Tavern."

“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself in a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.”