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

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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

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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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“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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