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“Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.” — Thomas Paine

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“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.” — Samuel Johnson

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” — Edmund Burke

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“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.” — Blaise Pascal

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“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?” — Aldous Huxley

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“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.” — George Eliot

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“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” — Charles Darwin

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“The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.” — Aldous Huxley

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“There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.” — H. L. Mencken

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“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.” — Richard Whately

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“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.” — H. L. Mencken

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“A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.” — H. L. Mencken

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“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.” — Warren Buffett

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“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.” — Francis Bacon

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