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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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“Woman's at best a contradiction still.” — Alexander Pope

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

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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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“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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“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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“The best interpreter of the law is custom.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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

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“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” — Jane Austen

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“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.” — Joel Osteen

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