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Alexander Selkirk, the Scottish inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, was stranded from September 1704 to 2 February 1709 on one of the Juan Fernández islands off the coast of Chile.
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
a man like Mr. Peggotty was not a bad person to have on board if anything did happen. Nothing happened, however, worse than morning.
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
This was a sophisticated mercantile economy in which paper money was supplied by private enterprise and credit was based on the sale of contracts for the future supply of salt to the government – a commodity for which demand was exceptionally stable.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Anonymous • CSB Study Bible
