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A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
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A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit, it hits all by itself.
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A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
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A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
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