"The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls."
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"Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave."
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"I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man."
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"A good man always knows his limitations."
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"When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning."
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"In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep."
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"Evil prevails when good men fail to act."
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"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."
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"Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!"
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"Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."
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"Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the same as a chair's effect, or a sculpture's. You're part of someone's view, you're part of that world, and so you should dress well. I find it's a show of respect to try to put on your best face and look as good as you can."
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"All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national."
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"It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones."
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"There come a time, when good man must wear mask."
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"When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind."
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"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."
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"I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?"
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"A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep."
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"To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man."
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"A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me."
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