Quotes with good-breeding

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  • Percy Ross Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
    Percy Ross
    American businessman (1916 - 2001)
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  • Christopher Morley Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Juvenal Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Joseph Wood Krutch Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Andy Rooney Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Ace Frehley Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Casey Stengel Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Samuel Johnson Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Kurtis First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Bob McDonnell Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Brett Hoebel Food is a lot of people's therapy - when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It's releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.
    Brett Hoebel
    American personal trainer
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  • Cate Blanchett For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Camille Paglia For a decade, feminists have drilled their disciples to say, Rape is a crime of violence but not of sex. This sugar-coated Shirley Temple nonsense has exposed young women to disaster. Misled by feminism, they do not expect rape from the nice boys from good homes who sit next to them in class.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Vikram Seth For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle 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
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Cai Guo-Qiang For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
    Cai Guo-Qiang
    Chinese artist (1957 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein For any child, boy or girl, a father is both Jedi and Sith: Obi-Wan Kenobi - gentle and calming and good - and Vader, fierce and terrifying.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • William Wordsworth For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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