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"What I think of blogs is just this: Some are beautifully written and many are not. But even blogs that aren't necessarily "well" written are great for the person writing them."
"If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well."
"He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king."
"All's well that carries on well"
"I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so?"
"In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered."
"You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now."
"If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter."
"This economy doesn't work well without the lubrication of credit and trust."
"I think what people understand there probably - well, they were hoping the private sector would do it [rescuing AIG ]."
"It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever."
"I know the country works extremely well. You know, but when it isn't clogged up."
"Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trespass on that of others, whereas nothing is so offensive as the aspirings of vulgarity which thinks to elevate itself by humiliating its neighbor."
"Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it."
"Examine well your blood."
"What e'er thou art, act well thy part."
"Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well."
"All is well ended, if the suit be won."
"Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved."
"Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger."
