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- The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), "On Liberty", 1859
- I don't drink; I don't like it - it makes me feel good.
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
- Watch?? I'm gonna pray, man! Know any good religions?
- Zaphod Beeblebrox (Douglas Adams)
- We've kept the good old vices and labored to invent a few, With cake in vulgar surplus we can have it, and eat it too
- Toy Matinee
- What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, especially if the goods are worthless.
- Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
- Someday Louisiana is going to get good government. And they ain't gunna like it.
- Earl K. Long
- Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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