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  • Benjamin Disraeli Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Erica Jong Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
    ― Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
    ― Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oliver Herford Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
    ― Oliver Herford
    American writer, cartoonist (1860 - 1935)
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  • Italo Calvino Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.
    ― Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • John Arbuthnot Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
    ― John Arbuthnot
    Scottish physician, satirist and polymath (1667 - 1735)
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  • Isaac Watts Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
    ― Isaac Watts
    English hymn writer, theologian, and logician (1674 - 1748)
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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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  • Sydney Smith Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
    ― Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's just used too much, especially for men. One black suit by one designer, another one by another - they all look the same in the end. If I walk into a crowded hotel lobby and I'm wearing a black suit, I just look like everyone else.
    ― Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • George Eliot Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
    ― George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Wendy Cope Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
    ― Wendy Cope
     
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  • John Dryden Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.
    Source: Epilogue to Constantine the Great
    ― John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • H. G. Bohn Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.
    ― H. G. Bohn
    British publisher
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  • Bruce Feirstein Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.
    ― Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
    ― James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Salman Rushdie Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
    ― Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Sir John Denham Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
    ― Sir John Denham
    Anglo-Irish poet and courtier (1615 - 1669)
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  • Bono Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
    ― Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
    ― Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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