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“In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.” — Napoleon Hill

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“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.” — Henry Ford

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“Testing oneself is best when done alone.” — Jimmy Carter

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“What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson

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“A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.” — Rebecca West

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“Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.” — Bill Watterson

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“The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.” — Winston Churchill

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“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.” — Sun Tzu

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“'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.” — William Shakespeare

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“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.” — Francis Bacon

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“It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” — John Wooden

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“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.” — William Shakespeare

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“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.” — Edward Abbey

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“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.” — Jackie Kennedy

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“Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.” — Mark Twain

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“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.” — Lord Byron

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“Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.” — Edward Abbey

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“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.” — Samuel Butler

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