“Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.”
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“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
“A good garden may have some weeds.”
“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”
“It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.”
“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”
“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
“You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
“Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.”
“Only the young die good.”
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.”
“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.”
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
“There is no such thing as a good tax.”
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”
“The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.”
“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”
“To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.”