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  • Sallust It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Joseph Conrad It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Thomas à Kempis It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • George Santayana It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Carine Roitfeld It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Sir Roger L'Estrange It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
    Source: Æsop's Fables, Reflection
    Sir Roger L'Estrange
    English journalist (1616 - 1702)
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  • John Galsworthy It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.
    Source: A Bit O' Love (1915)
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Bruce Sutter It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Blake Mycoskie It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Menander of Athens It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
    Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Bob Keeshan It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Woody Allen It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Anne Tyler It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Joan Baez It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
    Joan Baez
    American singer, songwriter (1941 - )
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  • George Eliot It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Stephen Leacock It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Calvin Coolidge It takes a great man to be a good listener.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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