"When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for."
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"I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?"
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"We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all."
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"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance."
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"You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better."
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"Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper."
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"I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times."
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"Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated."
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"Well, he died. You don't get any older than that."
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"We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us."
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"Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience."
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"Nothing is denied to well-directed labor."
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"What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?"
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"I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well."
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"I'm able to mentally adapt to things very well."
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"Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well."
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"I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment."
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"I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is."
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"Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good."
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"Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions."
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