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“There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles II. But the seamen were not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not seamen.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bc6a390fa7d249f10c0e13e91646eb9fa37c2236c10d86eeef30558c75c6ce6e
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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