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- I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.
- April Foiles
- Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.
- Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
- We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.
- Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
- And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- I'm a fan of laundry: the smell of fabric softener, the warm clothes in your hands. It's so good.
- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
- All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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