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Slander expires at a good woman's door.
Slander
Danish Proverb

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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Perfection
Dante Alighieri

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The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
Writers and Writing
Richard Harding Davis

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Knowledge
Edgar Degas

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Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Work
Eugene Delacroix

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We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?
Credulity
Madame Dorothe Deluzy

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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
Gratitude
Demosthenes

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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Mind
Rene Descartes

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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Books - Reading
Rene Descartes

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
Age and Aging
Camille Desmoulins

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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
Self-improvement
John Dewey

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Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
Service
Princess of Wales Diana

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.
Children
Princess of Wales Diana

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I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.
Intuition
Princess of Wales Diana

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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Law and Lawyers
Charles Dickens

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The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
Gentlemen
Charles Dickens

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Good music is very close to primitive language.
Music
Denis Diderot

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Perish those who said our good things before we did.
Plagiarism
Donatus

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For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
Joy
John Dryden

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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
Vocation
John Dryden

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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
Fun
Alexandre Dumas

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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
Bachelor
Finley Peter Dunne

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Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
Losers and Losing
Leo Durocher

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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
Opinions
Wayne Dyer

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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Tools
Freeman Dyson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun