“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
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“Fun is good.”
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.”
“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.”
“Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”
“A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.”
“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.”
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.”
“Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.”
“We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.”
“A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.”
“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole d--n life and one is as good as the other.”
“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.”
“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.”
“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”
“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”
“All styles are good except the tiresome kind.”
“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”
“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”
“When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'”
“It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.”
“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”