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- It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
- Avoid falsehoods like the plague except in matters of taxation, which do not count, since here your are not lying to take someone else's goods, but to prevent your own from being unjustly seized.
- (Giovanni Morelli)
- There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- I think it would be a good idea.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization
- Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.
- Jacqueline Susann, after reading Portnoy's Complaint
- Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
- The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
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