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“Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves.”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1750efb004ea810458f1bb5b79c794ab90cad40fb70f765ba777170b8ef45ca4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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