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Anyone looking for a beautiful woman, good and intelligent, do not try one but three.
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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
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But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
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Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
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Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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Good conversation unrolls itself like the spring or like the dawn.
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