“They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property.”

—  John Steinbeck , book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter III

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