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“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?” — Aldous Huxley

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“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.” — Francis Bacon

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“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.” — George Eliot

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“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.” — Aldous Huxley

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“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” — Charles Darwin

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“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.” — Warren Buffett

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“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.” — Richard Whately

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“A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.” — Thomas Aquinas

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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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“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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“There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.” — 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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“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.” — Bill Gates

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“It takes a great man to be a good listener.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” — Will Rogers

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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.” — Aldous Huxley

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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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