“You'll find, young Jim, that there are two measures of a man. Only two. What he will die for…and what he will kill for. You made your choice aboard the Hispaniola.”

—  Arthur M. Jolly

Squire Trelawney, Act II, Scene 6
Long Joan Silver (2013)

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