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351 quotesThe world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Books - Reading
Stan Barstow
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Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Hope
Bruce Barton
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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Books - Reading
Charles Baudelaire
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
Music
Sir Thomas Beecham
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Conservatives
Henry Ward Beecher
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Books - Reading
Hilaire Belloc
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Books - Classics
Alan Bennett
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
Glamour
John Berger
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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.
Knowledge
R. K. Bergethon
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Poverty and The Poor
Georges Bernanos
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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Courage
Georges Bernanos
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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Knowledge
Claude Bernard
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Books - Reading
Aneurin Bevan
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Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shall find it after many days.
Faith
Bible
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Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
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Bible
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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.
Work
Bible
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Man shall not live by bread alone.
Food and Eating
Bible
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Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]
Pleasure
Bible
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Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.
Advice
Ambrose Bierce
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Deliberation. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Deliberation
Ambrose Bierce
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Patriotism
Ambrose Bierce
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Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
Advice
Josh Billings
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The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
Mothers
Victoria Billings
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Books - Reading
Augustine Birrell
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Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.
Books - Reading
Professor Blackie
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun