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• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

  Vauvenargues
  French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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• The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

  The Art of Worldly Wisdom

  Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

  Phillips Brooks
  American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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• The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  Italian politician and banker (1920 - 2016)
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• The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.

  Boris Johnson
  British politician and author (1964 - )
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• The waste basket is a writer's best friend.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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• The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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• The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

  Beau Willimon
  American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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• The wildest colts make the best horses.

  Plutarch
  Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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• The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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• The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!

  Barbara Mikulski
  American politician (1936 - )
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• The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

  Francis H. Bradley
  British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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• The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

  Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184

  John Sterling
  Scottish author (1938 - )
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• The worst men often give the best advice.
  

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• The worst men often give the best advice.

  Philip James Bailey
  English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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• The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

  Will Rogers
  American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• determination
• politicians
• self-denial
• londoners
• represent
• guarantee

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