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- 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)
- ...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826), (Diary, 1786)
- A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
- I would have made a good Pope.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
- I don't feel good.
- Luther Burbank, last words
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