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“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.” — Kurt Vonnegut

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“The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.” — Paulo Coelho

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“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” — Helen Keller

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“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.” — E. B. White

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“Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.” — Aristotle

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“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.” — Helen Keller

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“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.” — John Muir

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“Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.” — Samuel Johnson

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“There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.” — Mark Twain

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“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.” — Aristotle

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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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“Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.” — Saint Francis de Sales

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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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“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.” — Hunter S. Thompson

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