Quotes with good-breeding

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  • Ambrose Bierce Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • William Shakespeare Every good servant does not all commands.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Fuller Good clothes open all doors.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • William Shakespeare Good digestion waits an appetite, and health an both.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Denis Diderot Good music is very close to primitive language.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • William Shakespeare Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say: Good night, till it be morrow.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Erica Jong Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller He teaches me to be good that does me good.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • William Shakespeare I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Anne Sullivan I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Thomas Fuller If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Robert M. Pirsig It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.
    Robert M. Pirsig
    American writer and philosopher (1928 - 2017)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Denis Diderot Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Wallace Stevens Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Winston Churchill Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
    Harrow School, 29-10-1941
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Augustus Hare Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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