957 private quotes tagged best

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.” — Thomas Paine

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“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.” — Samuel Butler

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“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.” — Sophocles

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

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“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.” — Robert Frost

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“The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.” — Ambrose Bierce

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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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“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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“Education is the best provision for old age.” — Aristotle

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

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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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“A majority is always better than the best repartee.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“If a man does his best, what else is there?” — George S. Patton

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“We have the best government that money can buy.” — Mark Twain

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“If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.” — Mark Twain

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“Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.” — Francis Bacon

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“I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.” — Henry David Thoreau

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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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