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Bad men are full of repentance. – Aristotle.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. – Aristotle.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity. - Plato.

Be frugal and free. - Benjamin Franklin.

Be industrious and free. - Benjamin Franklin.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Plato.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. - Plato.

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
- Benjamin Franklin.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. - Plato.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. – Aristotle.

But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances. – Aristotle.

Buy what you have no need of, and forever long you shall sell your necessaries. - Benjamin Franklin.

By thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better. – Anne Frank.


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