I don't suppose that the pirate did much more harm than the politician. And no pirate that I ever heard of came out of his business with a couple millions 'personal fund' for which he absolutely refused to account!
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Sunday, June 15, 2025
Pirates and Politicians
Rudyard Kipling, letter to Philip Gosse (December 21, 1927), quoted in Charles Carrington, Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work (London: Macmillan, 1955; rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986), p. 563: