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One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.


Richard Francis Burton

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I cannot say, and I will not say
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M.M. KAYE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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C LIONG How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved?...
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STEVE MARABOLI I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you.
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DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
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GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
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ONE Like a deep sad note
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We have wept too long
Night is fallin...
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ROBERT BURTON Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outrid...
ROBERT BURTON Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door an...
ROBERT BURTON Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
ROBERT BURTON For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
ROBERT BURTON There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share o...
PAUL BURTON He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
ROBERT BURTON [Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up li...
ROBERT BURTON England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for wom...
ROBERT BURTON Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is look...
TIM BURTON Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
ROBERT BURTON He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
ROBERT BURTON The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.
ROBERT BURTON Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
ROBERT BURTON Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who kno...
LADY BURTON