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“It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.” — Napoleon Hill

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“I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.” — William Butler Yeats

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“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.” — Ronald Reagan

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

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“Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.” — Francis Bacon

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“Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.” — Thomas Fuller

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“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.” — Carl Sandburg

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“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.” — George Eliot

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“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.” — George Eliot

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“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.” — Alexander Pope

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“The wildest colts make the best horses.” — Plutarch

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“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.” — Alexander Pope

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“The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.” — Alexander Pope

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“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.” — Anne Frank

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“The best way to know God is to love many things.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.” — Samuel Adams

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“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.” — Lou Holtz

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