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“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”— Marcus Aurelius
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“The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.”— Lao Tzu
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“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”— Edmund Burke
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“Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.”— Andrew Carnegie
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“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”— Sigmund Freud
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“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”— Confucius
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“Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”— Ambrose Bierce
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“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”— Ansel Adams
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“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”— Thomas Paine
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“Only the young die good.”— Oliver Herford
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“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”— Mark Twain
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“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”— Walt Whitman
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“An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.”— Will Rogers
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“There is no such thing as a good tax.”— Winston Churchill
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“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”— Mark Twain
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“I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.”— John Wooden
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“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”— Yogi Berra
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“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”— Aldous Huxley
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“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”— Confucius
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“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.”— Socrates
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“When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'”— Steven Wright