“Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.”
“Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!”
Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 10, The Voyage.
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“Piece by piece, pushing that rock up the hill.”
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“No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.”
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Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 177.
Source: Advice to Young Musicians