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

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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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“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 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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“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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“Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson

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

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“I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?” — Jackie Kennedy

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

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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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“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 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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“Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.” — Eminem

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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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