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By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.
-- P.J. Plauger, "Computer Language", 1988, April Fool's column....
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. -- Confuciu
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent....
By perseverance the snail reached the Ark. -- Charles Spurgeo
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
-- Titus Lucretius Caru...
By the time you swear you're his, shivering and sighing and he vows his passion is infinite, undying -- Lady, make a note of thi
One of you is lying. -- Dorothy Parker, "Unfortunate Coincidence...
By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. -- Mark Twai
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.
-- Robert Fro...
byob, v: Believing Your Own Bull

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