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But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise
Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins buil...
But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
-- James Thomson (1700-1748) -- The Seasons, Spring, Line 465...
But why do I need a gun license? It's only for use around the house. -- Charles Addam
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 198...
But Windows bashing is my job...my only job.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iii, Sta...
But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world
ow lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence....
But yet the pity of it, Iago! O Iago, the pity of it, Iago!
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act iv, Sc. 1...
Butyl: An unpleasant-sounding word denoting an unpleasant- smelling alcohol.
-- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...

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