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“The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.” — Lao Tzu

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“Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.” — Lao Tzu

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“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” — Edmund Burke

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“Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.” — Andrew Carnegie

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“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.” — Confucius

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“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.” — Sigmund Freud

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“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” — Ansel Adams

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“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.” — Thomas Paine

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“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.” — Mark Twain

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“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” — Walt Whitman

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“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.” — Walt Whitman

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“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” — Mark Twain

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“There is no such thing as a good tax.” — Winston Churchill

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“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” — Frank Zappa

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“An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.” — Will Rogers

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“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.” — Aldous Huxley

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“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” — Confucius

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“Only the young die good.” — Oliver Herford

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“When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'” — Steven Wright

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“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.” — Socrates

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