"Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen."
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"Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation."
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"We can't fight AIDS unless we do much more to fight TB as well."
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"Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being."
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"I'd also take any acting job...well, not any acting job, that's not true. I'd take a cool acting job."
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"I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be."
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"In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill."
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"I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow."
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"As well as being in love, we're great friends. Warren makes me feel wanted, and that counts a lot with me."
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"I have a few friends who are models, but I know a lot of others as well. We usually go out for a drink or clubbing."
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"Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship."
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"All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well."
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"Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist."
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"It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well."
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"No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled."
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"Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]"
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"I haven't been unfaithful, well only when I was younger!"
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"Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well."
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"It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new."
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"He is dead now, but he meant well."
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