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“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.” — Francis Bacon

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“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.” — Voltaire

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“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.” — William Shakespeare

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“Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.” — Bill Watterson

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“It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.” — Napoleon Hill

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“A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” — Charles Darwin

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“Honesty is the best policy.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” — John Wooden

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“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“The best road to progress is freedom's road.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.” — William Feather

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“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.” — Henry Ford

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“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.” — Josh Billings

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“The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.” — George Eliot

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“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” — Harry S. Truman

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“The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.” — Mark Twain

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“When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.” — Edward Abbey

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