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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Thoughts and Thinking
Niels Bohr

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Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
Praise
Nicholas Boileau

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He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
Writers and Writing
Nicholas Boileau

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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
Honor
Nicholas Boileau

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If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
Ancestry
Nicholas Boileau

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No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
Writers and Writing
Nicholas Boileau

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Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
Praise
Nicholas Boileau

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
Wisdom
Nicholas Boileau

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One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
Confidence
Boiste

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Ignorance
Derek Bok

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.
Nations
Henry Bolingbroke

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Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
Patriotism
Henry Bolingbroke

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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Pride
Henry Bolingbroke

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Politicians and Politics
Henry Bolingbroke

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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Reason
Henry Bolingbroke

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Forget the past and live the present hour.
Present
Sarah Knowles Bolton

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Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Comedy and Comedians
Erma Bombeck

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I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.
Control
Erma Bombeck

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Children
Erma Bombeck

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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Doctors
Erma Bombeck

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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Children
Erma Bombeck

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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Constitutions
Napoleon Bonaparte

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A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.
Taste
Napoleon Bonaparte

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A true man hates no one.
Men
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Oppression
Napoleon Bonaparte

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