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Letter "P" » plucks
«Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.»
Author: Al Spalding
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Keywords:
All American,
American,
baseball,
baseballs,
combativeness,
confidence,
confidences,
courage,
dash,
dashed,
dashing,
determination,
determinations,
discipline,
Disciplining,
eagerness,
energy,
enthusiasm,
enthusiasms,
exponent,
exponents,
performance,
persistency,
pluck,
plucks,
sagacity,
spirit,
spirited,
spiriting,
spirit up,
success,
vigor,
vim,
virility,
with determination
«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
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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
«Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Love
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Keywords:
blossoms,
brief,
duration,
enjoyed,
flower,
law,
plucked,
plucks,
unexpectedly
«By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.»
«Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.»
«I have conquered and cleaned thee out (?); I have also gained thy reserve. As the wolf plucks to pieces the sheep, thus do I pluck thy winnings.»
«She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(
Novelist)
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Keywords:
allowed,
compared,
delectable,
faculty,
Faculty of,
flower,
lover,
nevertheless,
pluck,
plucks,
reborn,
rose,
spring,
The Rose
«To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason»
«Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.»
«And liberty plucks justice by the nose.»