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“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” — Anne Frank

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“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.” — H. L. Mencken

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“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.” — Martin Luther

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“A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The good man is the friend of all living things.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.” — Mark Twain

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“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.” — Mark Twain

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“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.” — Sun Tzu

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“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.” — Hunter S. Thompson

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“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.” — Confucius

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“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” — Maya Angelou

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“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.” — Mark Twain

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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.” — Oscar Wilde

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“An overflow of good converts to bad.” — William Shakespeare

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“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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