An English sea-captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of Erin,"… — The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary — Ambrose Bierce

An English sea-captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of Erin," replied: "No, sir, but I should like to anchor on it." Years afterwards, when he had been hanged as a pirate after a career of unparalleled atrocities, the following memorandum was found in the ship's log that he had kept at the time of his reply:

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