"The bells discuss the hour's gradations, Dusty shelves……" — Philip Larkin

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• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do… — Walter Bagehot
• The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. — Matsuo Basho
• No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years. — Shirley Bassey
• When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. — Henry Ward Beecher
• I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do… — Ben Affleck
• I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was… — Jo Brand
• The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on… — Edward McKendree Bounds
• One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I… — Pablo Neruda
• I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking.… — Benito Mussolini
• I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to… — Elaine Stritch

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