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“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.” — William Butler Yeats

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“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” — Aristotle

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“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” — George Orwell

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“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.” — Mark Twain

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“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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“It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.” — Aeschylus

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“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.” — George Eliot

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“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.” — John F. Kennedy

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“With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” — William Butler Yeats

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“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” — Helen Keller

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“It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.” — W. Edwards Deming

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“Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.” — Franklin P. Adams

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“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.” — Heraclitus

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“Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.” — Alexander Pope

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“Woman's at best a contradiction still.” — Alexander Pope

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“He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.” — Samuel Butler

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“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.” — William F. Buckley, Jr.

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“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.” — Anatole France

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