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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. ↗

— John Berger

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Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians. ↗

— Ellis Peters

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If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. ↗

— Alan Patrick Herbert

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I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

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I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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