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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard. ↗

— William Jennings Bryant

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Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

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Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors. ↗

— James Buchan

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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. ↗

— James Buchan

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Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. ↗

— Georg Buchner

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Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. ↗

— Charles Buck

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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