A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean ✨ Thomas…

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A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States, p.147
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