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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
Marriage
Josh Billings

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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Truth
Josh Billings

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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
Experience
Josh Billings

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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
Poverty and The Poor
Josh Billings

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Life and Living
Josh Billings

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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Quality
Josh Billings

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
Knowledge
Josh Billings

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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Brevity
Josh Billings

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When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
Eloquence
Josh Billings

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
Power
Josh Billings

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
Fear
Otto Von Bismarck

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Character
Jacqueline Bisset

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Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Tenderness
Hugh Blair

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
Enjoyment
Hugh Blair

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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Fools and Foolishness
William Blake

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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
Candor
William Blake

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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
Vision
William Blake

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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Opinions
William Blake

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.
Work
Susan Blow

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
Freedom
Leon Blum

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.
Patience
Paul Boese

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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
Motivation
William Boetcker

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All you owe the public is a good performance.
Excellence
Humphrey Bogart

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

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