Quotes with good-fortune

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  • Bernard M. Baruch Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Gold is good in its place but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Mark Twain Golf is a good walk spoiled.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bryn Terfel Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bette Davis Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
    Id love to kiss you-- : conversations with Bette Davis
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Agatha Christie Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Good and bad men are less than they seem.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • John Locke Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Berthold Auerbach Good and stupid, is a common saying. I have found that only the judicious are really good. Only clever men know what is good for others; and at the first appearance of disadvantage to himself, the stupid man deserts.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Ezra Pound Good art however ''immoral'' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Augustine Birrell Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • Cole Porter Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
    Cole Porter
    American composer and songwriter (1891 - 1964)
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  • Henry S. Haskins Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Plutarch Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Mark Twain Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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