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8984 quotesRiches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Riches
Francis Bacon
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Riches are for spending.
Excess
Francis Bacon
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Learning
Francis Bacon
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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
Strategies
Francis Bacon
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Wealth
Francis Bacon
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The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Responsibility
Francis Bacon
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Friends and Friendship
Francis Bacon
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Beauty
Francis Bacon
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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
Truth
Francis Bacon
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Truth
Francis Bacon
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Solitude
Francis Bacon
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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Marriage
Francis Bacon
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Present
Francis Bacon
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A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.
Minorities
Leo Baeck
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A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
Neighbors
Arthur Baer
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Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
Alimony
Arthur Baer
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
Diplomacy
Walter Bagehot
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The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
Observation
Walter Bagehot
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Writers and Writing
Walter Bagehot
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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
Death and Dying
Enid Bagnold
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Judges don't age. Time decorates them.
Judgment and Judges
Enid Bagnold
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Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.
Sex
Enid Bagnold
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In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
Faith
Henry Christopher Bailey
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They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
Forgiveness
Josiah Bailey
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
Worth
Pearl Bailey
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun