"In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised."
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"Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it."
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"We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road."
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"He will live ill who does not know how to die well."
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"He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by."
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"It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means."
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"Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it."
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"That's the formaldehyde. That's why Granny's so well-preserved."
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"We are as gods and might as well get good at it."
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"I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well."
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"I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed."
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"I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words."
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"I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well."
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"It is better to travel well then arrive."
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"To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship."
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"A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them."
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"Things well fitted abide."
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"If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well."
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"Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast."
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"A life well used procures a happy death."
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