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“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.” — George Eliot

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“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” — Maya Angelou

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“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Be not simply good - be good for something.” — Henry David Thoreau

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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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“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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“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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“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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“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” — Anne Frank

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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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“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.” — Socrates

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“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.” — Oscar Wilde

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“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.” — Plutarch

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“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.” — H. L. Mencken

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

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“For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.” — Winston Churchill

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“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” — William Shakespeare

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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.” — Aldous Huxley

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“The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.” — Martin Luther

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“No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.” — Hunter S. Thompson

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