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“We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.” — Blaise Pascal

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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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“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

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

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

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

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