"It is when Pirates count their booty that……" — William Bolitho
"It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves."
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William Bolitho
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11 Quotes by William Bolitho
William Bolitho has 11 quotes on this site.
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You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
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Adventure must start with running away from home.
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Dare, will, keep silence.
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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he…
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The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really…
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A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains…
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Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social
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The mere idea of marriage, asa strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will…
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The mere idea of marriage, asa strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will…
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The profession of magician, isone of the most perilous and arduous specialisations of the imagination. On the one handthere is…
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More Become Mere Quotes
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one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.
— William Banting
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The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value…
— P. M. Forni
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She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs…
— Edith Wharton
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All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.
— Guy Debord
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How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from…
— Joseph Sobran
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We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.
— Alan Watts
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A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives…
— Richard Schickel
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Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed…
— William James
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the…
— Salman Rushdie
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See what I have become? Mere shadow and vapor... I have form only when I can share another's body -…
— Voldemort
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The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger…
— Unknown Author
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