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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death. ↗

— Amanda Coplin

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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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Don't go to the grave with life unused. ↗

— Bobby Bowden

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Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

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Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. ↗

— Thomas Bowdler

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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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We are minor in everything but our passions. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there. ↗

— Charles Bowen

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