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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

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In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect. ↗

— Tristan Bernard

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I never said most of the things I said. ↗

— Yogi Berra

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One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

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To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

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I'd love to be a Bond girl. I mean, if you're going to be stereotyped, there are worse things to be stereotyped as. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

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People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening. ↗

— David Brinkley

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You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent. ↗

— John Brough

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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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