If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.

- Walt Whitman, I Sing the Body Electric -

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What action is to the orator, that boldness is to the public man first, second and third.

- Bacon, Insurative -

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I dare do all that may become a man;Who dare do more is none.

- Shakespeare, Macbeth -

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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

- Pope -

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Books without the knowledge of life are useless, for what should books teach but the art of living ?

- Johnson -

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Laws die, Books never.

- Bulwer, Lytton -

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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

- Milton, Areopagitica -

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Dreams, books, are each a world, and books, we know.

- Wordsworth, Personal Talk -

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

- Bacon, Essays of Studies -

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Books are the shrine where the saint is, or is believed to be.

- Bacon, To Sir Bodely -

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Boots.....boots....boots....boots movin'up and down again. There's no discharge in the war!

- Kipling, Boots -

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The secret of boring is the practice of saying everything.

- Voltaire -

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One of the best things in the world to be is a bore; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.

-Charles Dudley Warner, Being a Boy -

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The borrower is servant to the lender.

- Proverb -

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Neither a borrower nor a lended beFor loan oft loses both itself and friend,And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

- Shakespeare -

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The smiles and tears of boyhood's years.The words of love then spoken.

- Thomas Moore, Oft in the Silly Night -

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The best hearts are ever the bravest.

- Sterne -

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Man shall not live by bread alone.

- Mathew, Old Testament -

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O, God! that bread should be so dear,And flesh and blood so cheap!

- Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt -

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Good breeding is the blossom of sense.

- Young, Love of Fame -

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