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“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

- Samuel Johnson,

Tag: concentration, death, focus, hanging, irony,

“It’s better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow,Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.”

- Benjamin Franklin

Tag: blackbeard, hanging, pirates, poetry,

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