John Paul Jones (1747–1792) American naval officer
Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont (16 November 1778), as quoted in The Naval History of the United States (1890) by Willis John Abbot, p. 82
“I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.”
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