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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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“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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“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.” — John F. Kennedy

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“We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.” — Samuel Butler

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“A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.” — Rebecca West

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“The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.” — Winston Churchill

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

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“'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.” — William Shakespeare

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“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.” — Lord Byron

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

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“Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.” — Edward Abbey

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“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.” — Sun Tzu

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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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“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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“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.” — Jackie Kennedy

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

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“Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.” — James Madison

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

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