“Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.”
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“Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.”
“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.”
“It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.”
“The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”
“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”
“Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.”
“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.”
“Woman's at best a contradiction still.”
“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.”
“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.”
“It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.”
“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”
“It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.”
“Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.”
“Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.”
“Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.”
“One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.”
“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.”
“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.”
“The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.”