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- You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
- Rita Mae Brown
- Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
- Rita Mae Brown
- You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
- James Whistler
- So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story,
And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream
- Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
- Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973)
- 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.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Shall ignorance of good and ill
Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest. - Gay
- How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world. - Shakespeare
- It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
- Latin proverb
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