"If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own."
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"He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright."
"A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well."
"Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself"
"Things... well, things suck sometimes. And sometimes you can fix it. And sometimes you can't. It's just the way it is."
"I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay."
"You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility."
"Do well by doing good."
"I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well."
"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"
"The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'."
"Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman."
"Well, you always know who you are. I just don't know who I'm gonna become."
"Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly."
"Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well"
"Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP"
"I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering."
"Love isn't how well you know someone, it is how they make you feel."
"Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground."
"It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them."