"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony."
Scaramouche (1921) bk. 1, ch. 1
Italian writer of romance and adventure novels Rafael Sabatini was born #OTD in 1875.
He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk (1915), Scaramouche (1921), Captain Blood (a.k.a. Captain Blood: His Odyssey) (1922), and Bellarion the Fortunate (1926).
Books by Rafael Sabatini at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/640