Quotes with good-will

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Adolf Galland Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Milan Kundera No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.
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    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Michael Moore No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
    Michael Moore
    American documentary filmmaker, activist, and author (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce No good deed goes unpunished.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • John Ruskin No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • W. H. Auden No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • C. Day Lewis No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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  • Ezra Pound No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • O. Schreiner No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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  • John Ruskin No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • José Saramago No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Marquis de Sade No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • John Milton No man can love freedom heartily, but good men; tbc rest lovc not freedom, but licence.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Helen Rowland No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • William E. Gladstone No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Abraham Lincoln No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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