- Aphra Behn
(07/10/1640 – 04/16/1689)
English writer
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"We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too."
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"Come away; poverty's catching."
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"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
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"Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind."
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"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because
heaven has granted me no offspring."
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"Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals."
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"A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price."
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| "John Stuart Mill By a mighty effort of will Overcame his natural bonhomie And wrote 'Principles of Political Economy'."
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"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were."
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| "The three toughest fighters I've ever been up against were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprized I'm not diabetic! But I did have him off the canvas once...when he stepped over my body to leave the ring." |  |
"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living."
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"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
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"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
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"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."
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"If I wasn't talking, I wouldn't know what to say."
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"We look like K-Mart rock 'n rollers, you know, the discount clothes stores where all the hicks go."
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"I want to be a diva...like people-totally-respect-my-music diva, not diva like carry-my-diet-Coke-around."
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| Born 07/09 | Born 07/10 | Born 07/11 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 07/09 | Died 07/10 | Died 07/11 | Death Dates |