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- I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
- Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)
- Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Silas Marner (1861)
- Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Weekly Articles (1981), first published 1927
- What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
- Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
- Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929), Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
- Goodbye cruel world.
- Gloria Shayne, Title of song (1961)
- There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
- Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
- Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), Collected poems (1952)
- Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
- e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
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