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- Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
- A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929
- There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
- Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ), Metropolitan Life, 1978
- No good deed goes unpunished.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in H. Faber, The Book of Laws, 1980
- Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
- Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
- Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
- Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
- Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931
- Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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