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Letter "F" » feathers
«The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing»
Author: Jean Baptiste Colbert
(
Economist,
Minister)
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About:
Taxation
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Keywords:
amount,
Art of,
feathers,
goose,
goosed,
hissed,
hisses,
hissing,
largest,
obtain,
plucking,
plucks,
smallest,
taxation,
the art,
the smallest
«I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.»
«Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.»
«Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(
Journalist,
Novelist,
Satirist)
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Keywords:
butt,
butted,
butting,
butts,
butt in,
chicken,
chicken out,
feathers,
sticking
«Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.»
«I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers / because males have got to try and justify their existence.»
Author: Orson Welles
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Keywords:
belong to,
brighten,
brightened,
brightening,
brightens,
desperation,
feathers,
have got,
justify,
luxury,
madden,
maddening,
prettier,
Pretty Woman,
The Birds
«There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.»
«St Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was! / The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; / The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, / And silent was the flock in woolly fold.»
Author: John Keats
(
Poet)
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Keywords:
Agnes,
chill,
Eve,
feathers,
flock,
fold,
frozen,
hare,
limped,
owl,
The Owl,
trembling,
woolly
«Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.»
«Man is a biped without feathers»