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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
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The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.
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The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: the good die early, and the bad die late.
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The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.
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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
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The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
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The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the only legitimate object of good government.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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The child has no way of knowing what's good information.
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The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
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