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From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.


Benjamin Hoff

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told t...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parli...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orat...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Never complain and never explain.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous Pe...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
BENJAMIN SPOCK I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the mo...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Na...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sir, I say that justice is truth in action
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when chi...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for somethin...
BENJAMIN SPOCK The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation
BENJAMIN SPOCK