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“Good men must not obey the laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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“Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.” — George Carlin

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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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“A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.” — Thomas Paine

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“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.” — Ernest Hemingway

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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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“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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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“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Necessity never made a good bargain.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.” — Albert Camus

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“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“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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“It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.” — Ronald Reagan

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“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.” — H. L. Mencken

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“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.” — Carl Sagan

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

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