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  • Joseph Addison Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Kate Millet Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Alfred Adler The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Sun Tzu The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • A. W. Tozer The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Louis Dudek There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.
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  • Aristotle Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ben Jonson To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Voltaire To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Molière We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Aristotle Well begun is half done.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Well done, is better than well said.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Harry S. Truman Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Charlotte Whitton Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
    Charlotte Whitton
    Canadian feminist and mayor (1896 - 1975)
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