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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the…
— Joseph Addison
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none…
— Joseph Addison
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be…
— James Van Der Beek
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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein…
— Joseph Addison
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in…
— Joseph Addison
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people…
— Max Beerbohm
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Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the…
— Brendan Behan
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That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
— Aphra Behn
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more…
— Carol Bellamy
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
— Saul Bellow
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If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make…
— Pat Benatar
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There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
— Robert Benchley
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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing…
— Robert Benchley
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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent…
— Robert Benchley
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity,…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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