I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up
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I hope.. That mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am
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The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself
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God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones
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It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
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Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
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A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably
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Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.<br/>Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.<br/>Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.<br/>Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.<br/>Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.<br/>Elves are terrific. They beget terror.<br/>The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.<br/>No one ever said elves are nice.<br/>Elves are bad.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit
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The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news.. And it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.
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Man is the only creature in the animal kingdom that sits in judgment on the work of the Creator and finds it bad - including himself and Nature
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Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start
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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few
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Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions
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A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one
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