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“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.”— Bertrand Russell
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“An overflow of good converts to bad.”— William Shakespeare
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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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“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 good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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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“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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“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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“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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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“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.”— Ludwig van Beethoven
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“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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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“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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“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”— Albert Einstein
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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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“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”— Thomas Aquinas
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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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“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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“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.”— H. L. Mencken
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“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”— Henry Ward Beecher