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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 848
AUTHOR: John Paul Jones (1747–92)
QUOTATION: I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm’s way.
ATTRIBUTION: JOHN PAUL JONES, letter to M. Le Ray de Chaumont, November 16, 1778.—Lincoln Lorenz, John Paul Jones, Fighter for Freedom and Glory, p. xiii (1943).
SUBJECTS: Harm
 


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