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Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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The selfish person would be capable of setting fire to the neighbor's house to fry an egg.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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A man is willing to believe what he would like to be true.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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The experience of centuries proves that luxury heralds the decline of empires.

Robert Baden-Powell

Robert Baden-Powell

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If you have the habit of taking things with joy, you will rarely find yourselves in difficult circumstances.

Robert Baden-Powell

Robert Baden-Powell

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Try to leave this world a little better than you found it.

Joan Baez

Joan Baez

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If you don't fight to end corruption and decay, you will end up becoming part of it.

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

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It is good to be free from vices, but it is very bad to have no temptations.

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

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You can talk about the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius, but the real tyranny is that of the next-door neighbor.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

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The war would end if the dead could come back.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never stopped imitating them.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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Even good feelings, if excessively exalted, are capable of leading us to deplorable errors.