Wells quotes
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"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for."
"If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all."
"Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel."
"There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly."
"I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well."
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"The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well."
"If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust."
"Anything I do, I want to do it well."
"Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well."
"I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer."
"It is not money that makes you well dressed: it is understanding."
"Be who you are and be that well."
"Being humble doesn't work as well as being aware."
"A pessimist is a well-informed optimist."
"Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside."
"Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for."
"You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well."
"Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again."
"A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny."
"I know my role and I play it well."
"Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise."
"In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well."
"Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well."
