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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
Government
Joy Baluch

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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Mothers
Honore De Balzac

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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Fortune
Honore De Balzac

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Investments
Honore De Balzac

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Painters and Painting
Honore De Balzac

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Pleasure
Honore De Balzac

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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Manners
Honore De Balzac

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Modesty
Honore De Balzac

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Fools and Foolishness
Honore De Balzac

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Forgiveness
Honore De Balzac

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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Love
Honore De Balzac

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
Laughter
Honore De Balzac

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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Vocation
Honore De Balzac

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Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Toni Cade Bambara

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Avarice is the vice of declining years.
Greed
George Bancroft

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
Beauty
George Bancroft

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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
Conscience
George Bancroft

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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
Slander
George Bancroft

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The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
Public
George Bancroft

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I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
Stupidity
Antonio Banderas

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
Arts and Artists
Lester Bangs

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The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
Entertainment
Lester Bangs

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Mistakes
Tallulah Bankhead

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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
Morality
Tallulah Bankhead

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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Mistakes
Tallulah Bankhead

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