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Mark Twain
American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835-1910

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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Aristotle
Greek philosopher 384 BC - 322 BC

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Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
Greek philosopher 384 BC - 322 BC

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Francis Maitland Balfour
British biologist 1851-1882

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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Felix Adler
German American professor of political and social ethics 1851-1933

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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
Vincent Van Gogh
Dutch Painter 1853-1890

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Josh Billings
American humorist 1815-1885

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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
Lord Chesterfield
English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) 1694-1773

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Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
Robert Frost
American poet 1874-1963

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Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
French revolutionary and writer 1749-1791

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If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
George Orwell
English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) 1903-1950

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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
Henry David Thoreau
American writer 1817-1862

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The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
English Baptist preacher 1834-1892

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble
Anthony Hecht
American poet 1923-2004

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A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
C. S. Lewis
Irish novelist and poet 1898-1963

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All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.