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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#common #common sense #next #philosophy #sense

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#big #big difference #costs #difference #free

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. ↗

— Aphra Behn

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. this is my symphony. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#life #wisdom #life

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. ↗

— Saul Bellow

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I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

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