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suffer pirates and the commerce of the world must cease, which this nation has deservedly so great a share in, and reaps such mighty advantage by.
Steven Johnson • Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
As if under the spell of some Old Testament prophet, the turning tide drains Scilly of its turquoise sea and from nowhere, it seems, citizen and tourist alike begin to pick their way, more or less dry-shod, across low sandy causeways to what had recently been a neighbouring island – to visit friends, to take advantage of the free passage or, more l
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Only the poor will be victims of inflation and ensuing collapses into deflation that are consequences of the artificial leverage which fiat money injects into the economy.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
and of Augustus too.” Yet
Jon Meacham • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Every piece of Erik was a fresh loss, even his ill-gotten artwork.