"Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession."
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"We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element."
"We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors."
"The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die."
"Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed."
"Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman."
"It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well..."
"Whatever is well said by another, is mine."
"Dig your well before you're thirsty."
"We only do well the things we like doing."
"I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere."
"If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too."
"For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night."
"Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well."
"It's not enough to do good. It must be done well."
"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."
"Well, I am an extremely beautiful person."
"Margaret Thatcher - this great lady has not only served her country well, she has served the free world well."
"Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere."
"We are the mirror - As well as the face in it."