"Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about five and twenty. I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers — ambition and indigestion.
Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about fi...
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