974 private quotes tagged good

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“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”— Bertrand Russell
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“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”— Socrates
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“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”— Plato
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“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”— Oscar Wilde
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“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”— Swami Vivekananda
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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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“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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“Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.”— William Shakespeare
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“I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.”— William Shakespeare
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“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.”— William Shakespeare
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“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”— Thomas Aquinas
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“Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.”— Muhammad Ali
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“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”— Benjamin Franklin
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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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“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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“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Good writing is like a windowpane.”— George Orwell
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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
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“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.”— Ronald Reagan