#his

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. ↗

— 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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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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A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#atheist #buddhist #catholic #god #good

The Thames is liquid history. ↗

— John Burns

#liquid #thames

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue? ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. ↗

— Robert Burton

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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going. ↗

— Mark Caine

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