Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island (1883)

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"What is the Black Spot, Captain?" "That's a summons, mate."

Robert Louis Stevenson
Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Doctors is all swabs... and that doctor there, why, what do he know about seafaring men? I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes — what do the doctor know of lands like that? — and I lived on rum, I tell you.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Fifteen men on the dead man's chest —
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest —
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Robert Louis Stevenson
Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!

Robert Louis Stevenson
I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me. If I'm not to have my rum now I'm a poor old hulk on a lee shore, my blood'll be on you, Jim, and that doctor swab.

Robert Louis Stevenson
They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;

Robert Louis Stevenson
I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

Robert Louis Stevenson
You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

Robert Louis Stevenson