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  1. James Clavell _ Tai-Pan

    There can only be one Tai-Pan.
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  2. James Clavell _ Tai-Pan

    The time be gone forever when the like of me's to suck thy arse 'cause of a poxy title which like as not were gifted first to a king's whore, a king's bastard, or buyed by knife in a king's back.
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  3. James Clavell _ Tai-Pan

    Fallibility in a leader is very trying. Isn't it? They spill so much of other people's blood.
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  4. James Clavell _ Tai-Pan

    Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle.
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  5. James Clavell _ Tai-Pan

    Let's compete freely. Goddam tariffs! Free trade and free seas-that's what's right!
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  6. James Clavell _ Tai-Pan

    love is like the sea, sometimes calm and sometimes stormy; it's dangerous, beautiful, death-dealing, life-giving. But never permanent, everchanging.
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  7. James Clavell _ Tai-Pan

    all the people have a right to vote, and no single man ever controls the destiny of any nation, either by divine right or by right of stupid votes of a stupid electorate."
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  8. James Clavell _ Tai-Pan

    only the emperor among three hundred millions is allowed to use vermilion ink. Imagine that. If Queen Victoria said, 'From now on, only I am allowed to use vermilion,' as much as we love her, forty thousand Britons would instantly forswear all ink but vermilion. I would mysel'.
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  9. James Clavell _ Tai-Pan

    The Scots knew that the burning of a cross was a summons to the clan, and to all the kinsmen of all kindred clans: a summons to rally to the cross for battle. And the burning cross was raised only by the chief of the clan. By ancient law, once raised, the burning cross committed the clan to defend the land unto the end of the clan.
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  10. James Clavell _ Tai-Pan

    Then, alone once more, he split himself into the three persons that all generals of the Church must simultaneously be. First, the anointed Peter, first Bishop of Christ, with all that that spiritually implied. Second, the militant guardian of the Church temporal with all that that implied. And last, just a simple man who believed the teachings of a simple man who was the Son of God.
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  11. James Clavell _ Tai-Pan

    Without trade the world will become what it was once-a hell where only the strongest arm and the heaviest lash was law. The meek will never inherit the earth. Aye, but at least they can be protected by law to live out their lives as they wish.
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  12. James Clavell _ Tai-Pan

    You live by the lash and you'll die by it.
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