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Missy Gold, in the voice of Katherine ‘Katie’ Olivia Gatling:

If there were dirty books in the library, boys would get library cards.

Afterthought:

If you can find that episode of Benson, you should watch it.

It’s happening in real life as I type this.

I watched it on Tubi.

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Gary Allan:

Let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip.

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Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

There are too many people in this world who spend their lives trying to get away with things.

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Blake Edwards:

It’s been my experience that every time I think I know where it’s at, it’s usually somewhere else.

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Stanley Kubrick:

There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

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Neil Dudgeon, in the voice of DCI John Barnaby, to DS Ben Jones, voiced by Jason Hughes:

The internet is a dangerous place to do research, Jones.

It was true when the show was first broadcast, and it’s still true today.

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Max Lerner:

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

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Salman Rushdie:

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

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John Galsworthy:

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

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Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

I think I’ve got something to contribute and they don’t see that I have ideas at all. All they see is black.

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Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

You get headaches? I thought you only gave them.

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Eugène Ionesco:

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

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John Nettles, in the voice of DCI Tom Barnaby:

Well, that’s religion for you, Jones. It brings out the irrational in people.

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Benjamin Disraeli:

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

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Hugo Grotius:

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

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john Locke:

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

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Jason Hughes, in the vovice of DS Ben Jones:

The law, Mr. Perkins, is like the Bible. You can always find one quote to contradict another.

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Kenneth Clark:

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

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Plutarch:

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

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