Whatever you are, be a good one.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.
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The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.
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A farmer learns more from a bad harvest than a good one.
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If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.
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I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.
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Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
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I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
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The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
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Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one.
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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one
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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time...is a very good one...
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It is not enough to do good one must do it the right way.
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It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
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We have more poets thatnjudges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem that to understand a good one.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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[I'm not here] necessarily to praise the quality of the recruiting class, although I think it's a good one. I just wanted to make sure that everybody knows I thought the [staff] did a great job. And when I say [staff], I mean everyone in this building.
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