"If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well."
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"A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed."
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"So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim."
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"When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it."
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"All isn't well with the world."
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"The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better."
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"The actual well seen is ideal."
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"Doing something unimportant well does not make it important."
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"Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church."
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"Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing."
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"You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!"
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"And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels."
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"Dance with her, and she will forgive much. Dance well, and she will forgive anything."
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"I am an artist and a political being as well."
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"You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between left or right. Well, I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down."
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"I've had quite a lot of bad experiences with Japanese sweets. I reckon, Japanese...they can do most things really well but sweets, they're a bit dodgy."
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"Only people who are well off can be - complex."
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"Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other."
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"The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false."
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"There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things."
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