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  • William E. Gladstone Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • A. E. Housman Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
    The Name and Nature of Poetry
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • James Russell Lowell Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Ben Jonson Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Boethius Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book 4, Prose 2, 524. Translated from Latin by Ric
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Ben Folds Good morning, son
    In twenty years from now
    Maybe we'll both sit down and have a few beers
    And I can tell you 'bout today
    And how I picked you up and everything changed.
    Lyrics Still Fighting It, Rockin the Suburbs (2001)
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Jonathan Franzen Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Casey Stengel Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • A. E. Housman Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Oscar Wilde Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Horace Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Alain de Botton Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Virginia Graham Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Gail Godwin Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
    Gail Godwin
    American novelist and short story writer (1937 - )
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Lord Jeffrey Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
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  • Ogden Nash Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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