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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
Money
Hilaire Belloc

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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
Lies and Lying
Hilaire Belloc

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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
Song and Singing
Hilaire Belloc

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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
Biography
Hilaire Belloc

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
Death and Dying
Hilaire Belloc

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The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
Science and Scientists
Hilaire Belloc

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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Goodness
Saul Bellow

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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
Independence
David Ben-Gurion

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With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
Conviction
Pat Benatar

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Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
Performance
Johnny Bench

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Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
Language
Robert Benchley

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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Travel and Tourism
Robert Benchley

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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Writers and Writing
Robert Benchley

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Writers and Writing
Robert Benchley

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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Quotations
Robert Benchley

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A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
Skepticism
Morris Bender

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Faith
Ruth Benedict

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Books - Reading
Stephen Vincent Benet

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Beauty and grace command the world.
Grace
Park Benjamin

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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Debate
Walter Benjamin

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
Advice
Walter Benjamin

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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Things and Little Things
Walter Benjamin

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Giving
Walter Benjamin

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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Procreation
Walter Benjamin

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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Public Opinion
Walter Benjamin

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun