“He signed himself prince of this, lord of that, baron of the other thing and claimant to the dukedom of something else.”

—  Murray Leinster , book The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 2

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Novelist, short story writer 1896–1975

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