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Letter "L" » League of
«I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations»
«None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.»
Author: Thurgood Marshall
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Jurist,
Lawyer)
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Keywords:
bent,
bents,
booted,
boots,
cronies,
crony,
helped,
in league,
ivy,
Ivy League,
league,
League of,
Nuns,
parent,
pick,
pick up,
pulling,
pull down,
solely
«I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.»
«The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures»
Author: Joseph Addison
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Dramatist,
Essayist,
Poet,
Statesman)
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About:
Friendship
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Keywords:
confederacies,
confederacy,
friendships,
in league,
leagues,
League of,
oft,
vice
«I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.»
«REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
able-bodied,
affectionate,
alliances,
association,
band,
Band of,
beater,
beaters,
blown,
bodied,
bosh,
butter,
cabal,
consequential,
cooperative,
costume,
deities,
detectable,
Dog Star,
domestic,
domestic cat,
domestic dog,
expurgated,
federation,
fee,
flamboyant,
flashing,
fraternity,
Garden of,
Gent,
genteel,
gents,
guardian,
guardians,
hogs,
horn,
humbug,
humbugged,
humbugs,
impenitent,
inhospitable,
inimitable,
insignia,
Kings of,
knights,
League of,
legion,
legions,
Legion of,
lousy,
mendacity,
militant,
monarchs,
Oriental,
phalanx,
plume,
plumed,
plumes,
polite,
pool,
prelate,
prelates,
prevalence,
prevention,
regale,
regalia,
scroll,
scrolls,
shrine,
Society of,
sodality,
sovereigns,
spoon,
spotlight,
spotlights,
The Band,
The Magic,
The Oriental,
The SPOTLIGHT,
the sublime,
The Yellow,
troglodyte,
Troglodytes,
tub,
undecipherable,
uniformed,
visionaries,
worshiper,
worshipers
«Now is the hour come, Riders of the Mark, sons of Eorl! Foes and fires are before you, and your homes far behind. Yet, though you fight upon an alien field, the glory that you reap there shall be your own forever. Oaths ye have taken: now fulfil them all, to lord and land and league of friendship!»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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Author,
Writer)
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Keywords:
alien,
field,
fires,
foes,
fulfil,
glory,
homes,
in league,
land,
landing field,
league,
League of,
Lord's table,
mark,
oaths,
reap,
reaps,
riders,
sons,
Sons of,
The Mark
«The great community of mankind is necessarily broken into smaller independent societies; these form distinct interests, which are too frequently opposed to each other, and which they who have entered into the league of particular governments falsely»
«I am sworn brother, sweet,To grim Necessity, and he and IWill keep a league till death.»
«Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.»