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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog - keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
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A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
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A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.
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A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
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A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
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A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.
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