“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
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“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”
“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”
“The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.”
“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.”
“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
“He who knows best knows how little he knows.”
“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.”
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
“I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”
“If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.”
“Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.”
“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”
“Hunger is the best pickle.”
“Fatigue is the best pillow.”
“That government is best which governs least.”
“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.”
“To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.”
“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”
“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.”
“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”