Ben Beard

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crime-mysteries‎ (158)
us-history‎ (152)
sports‎ (109)
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classics‎ (93)
religion‎ (91)
politics‎ (88)

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biography‎ (62)
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graphic-novels‎ (47)
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horror‎ (30)
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young-adult‎ (27)
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children-s-books‎ (10)
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making-and-fixing‎ (5)
pop-culture‎ (5)
spy-stuff‎ (4)
dog-training‎ (3)
folklore‎ (2)
memoir‎ (2)
bildungsroman‎ (1)

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Ben’s Quotes

“The size of a man’s understanding may always be justly measured by his mirth.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson, LL. D, Vol. 2 of 2

tags: humor, intelligence

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“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare

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“The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast,
and you miss all you are traveling for.”
― Louis L'Amour

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“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz

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“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
― George Washington

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