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  • André Malraux Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.''
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Wesley Beware you be not swallowed up in books.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Samuel Butler Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Assata Shakur Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Audre Lorde Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 47
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bill Bryson Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.
    Notes from a Small Island
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Anne Stevenson Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • William Arthur Ward Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
    Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • B. B. King Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • O. Henry Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Francis Bacon Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • William Shakespeare Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud.
    Romeo and Juliet (1595)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Milton Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Horace Mann Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house
    The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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