“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”
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“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”
“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.”
“Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.”
“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.”
“All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.”
“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.”
“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”
“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”
“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”
“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”
“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.”
“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”
“Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.”
“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.”
“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.”
“This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.”
“A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”
“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”
“Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.”
“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.”
“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.”
“For good nurture and education, implant good constitutions.”