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  • Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
  • Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
  • Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.
  • I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
  • I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.
  • One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
  • One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
  • A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
  • Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.
  • Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
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  • Mark Twain Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Francis Maitland Balfour The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
    Francis Maitland Balfour
    British biologist (1851 - 1882)
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  • Aristotle At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Aristotle Education is the best provision for old age.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Felix Adler Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
    Felix Adler
    German American professor of political and social ethics (1851 - 1933)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Josh Billings The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Robert Frost Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Theodore I. Rubin Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
    Theodore I. Rubin
     
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  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
    French revolutionary and writer (1749 - 1791)
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  • Frank Zappa Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • George Orwell Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Anthony Hecht A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • C. S. Lewis All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • John Wooden Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Og Mandino Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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