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Famous quotes containing the words piracy, caribbean, century and/or pirate:

    “As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)