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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
Favors
Robert Burns

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
Kindness
Robert Burns

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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
Pleasure
Aaron Burr

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
Age and Aging
John Burroughs

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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
Philosophers and Philosophy
John Burroughs

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Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
Methods
William S. Burroughs

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I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
Family
William S. Burroughs

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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
Dreams
William S. Burroughs

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They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
Plagiarism
Sir Richard Burton

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When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Sir Richard Burton

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
Marriage
Barbara Bush

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You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
Parents and Parenting
Barbara Bush

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Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
Habit
Horace Bushnell

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
God
Comte De Bussy-Rabutin

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America is the best half-educated country in the world.
America
Nicholas Butler

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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
Epitaphs
Nicholas Butler

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One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
Self-expression
Eric Butterworth

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Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.
Job
Eric Butterworth

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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Critics and Criticism
Charles Buxton

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The mark of a true MBA is that he is often wrong but seldom in doubt.
Education
Robert Buzzell

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Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.
Elections
Robert C. Byrd

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Friends and Friendship
James F. Byrnes

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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
Books - Reading
Lord Byron

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All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
Belief
Lord Byron

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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
Lies and Lying
Lord Byron

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun