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- Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
- Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
- For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.
- Gloria Borger
- Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- No good deed goes unpunished.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
- Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
- Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963
- Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)
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