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Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own…

— H. L. Mencken

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand…

— Carolyn Wells

I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged and papers…

— Oliver D. Crisp

Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.

— W. S. Gilbert

Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation.

— Woodrow Wilson

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they…

— John Cassavetes

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.

— Samuel Johnson

Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case…

— Peter Forsyth

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all…

— Lynne Truss

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.

— Jane Bowles

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to…

— Aristophanes

Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.

— Sappho

Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you…

— Tom Hodgkinson

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider…

— Mark Twain