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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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“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.” — Aldous Huxley

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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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“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.” — Abraham Lincoln

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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 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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“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.” — Francis Bacon

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“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.” — William Blake

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“The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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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“On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners.” — George Mikes

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“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.” — Thomas Aquinas

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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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“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” — C. S. Lewis

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“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.” — Socrates

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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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“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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“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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“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.” — Albert Einstein

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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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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.” — Aldous Huxley

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“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.” — Martin Luther

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