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“What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.” — Ronald Reagan

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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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“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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“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.” — Will Rogers

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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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“To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.” — Aeschylus

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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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“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.” — William Feather

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“It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.” — Mark Twain

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“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.” — William Butler Yeats

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“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” — Aristotle

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“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.” — Mark Twain

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“Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.” — Franklin P. Adams

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“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” — George Orwell

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“It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.” — Aeschylus

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“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.” — John F. Kennedy

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“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.” — Heraclitus

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“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” — William Butler Yeats

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“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” — Helen Keller

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