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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Habit
Aristotle

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
Speech
Francis Bacon

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With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.
Gossip
Bible

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Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
Quality
Steve Brown

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Business
Warren Buffett

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Lies and Lying
Marcus T. Cicero

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The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
Management
Stephen R. Covey

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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Rewards
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Thoughts and Thinking
Malcolm S. Forbes

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Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
Uncategorised
Benjamin Franklin

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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
Quality
Benjamin Haydon

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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
Performance
William Hazlitt

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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
Government
A. P. Herbert

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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
Restraint
Sir John Lubbock

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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
Preparation
George Macdonald

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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
Enjoyment
Orison Swett Marden

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Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
Sin
Peter Marshall

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In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
Taxes and Taxation
Austin O'Malley

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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
Royalty
Ovid

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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Speakers and Speaking
Blaise Pascal

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My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.
Elections
Claiborne Pell

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Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
Hobos
Jackson Pollock

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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
Gossip
Pythagoras

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Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Maturity
Jim Rohn

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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Risk
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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