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“There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.”— H. L. Mencken
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“A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.”— H. L. Mencken
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“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”— H. L. Mencken
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“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”— Charles Darwin
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“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners.”— George Mikes
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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”— Aldous Huxley
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“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”— Confucius
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“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”— Maya Angelou
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“The good man is the friend of all living things.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”— Oscar Wilde
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“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.”— Sun Tzu
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“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”— Mark Twain
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“Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.”— Will Rogers
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“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”— Anne Frank
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“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.”— Charles Spurgeon
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“A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.”— H. L. Mencken
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“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.”— Hunter S. Thompson
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“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.”— Warren Buffett
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“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”— Marcus Aurelius
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“The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.”— Martin Luther