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Letter "P" » pirate
«Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.»
«It is when pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.»
«Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.»
«There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.»
«Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly, they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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accordingly, burglars, calculable, constitutionally, for the most part, genuinely, outlines, pirate, pirates, systems, timid
«Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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mercantile, merchant, one and the same, pirate, pirates, piratical, refinement, refinements
«Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates»
«A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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accord, consideration, entitled, monarch, monarchs, pirate, pirates, Sunday best, Sunday school, the Monarch
«The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Flag of, highwayman, kingly, originally, perpetuated, pirate, pirates, procured
«There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
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Books
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at the bottom, In books, island, loot, looting, pirate, pirates, Spanish, Treasure Island
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