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I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.


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BEN SWEETLAND Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
BEN BAYOL The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for th...
BEN ELTON Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it...
BEN STEIN People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture ...
BEN ELTON If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towar...
BEN ELTON