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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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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.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
Bernard M. Baruch
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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Well done, is better than well said.
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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.
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