Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

-Connolly,James
  Socialism Made Easy.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

-Fielding, Henry
  Tom Jones, bk.11, ch.4.

Long life to thy fame and peace to thy soul, Rob Burns! When I want to express a sentiment which I feel strongly, I find the phrase in Shakespeareöor thee. The blockheads talk of my being like Shakespeareönot fit to tie his brogues.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Journal,11 Dec.

That hobnailed goblin, the bob-tailed Hob, said,'It is time I began to rob'.

-Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa
  Fa c° ade,'Country Dance'.