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Don’t worry, you will live through this,” his devilish grin flashed for a brief moment before he rocked back onto his heals, closing his eyes in a meditative state.


Benjamin M. Strozykowski

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BENJAMIN BRITTEN We moralize among ruins.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for mon...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, ...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK Love well, whip well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A majority is always better than the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an e...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Finality is not the language of politics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI In politics, nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Amusement to an observing mind is study.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish gre...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the wa...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN