“Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!”

— Robert Louis Stevenson, book Treasure Island

Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 10, The Voyage.

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Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer 1850–1894

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