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La Rochefoucauld

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

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The age of strong belief is over the good is no longer always very good.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.

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George Bernard Shaw

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

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Henry David Thoreau

If I knew … that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.

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Bushrod H. Campbell

If I’ve learned anything in my seventy years it’s that nothing’s as good or as bad as it appears.

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The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

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Baltasar Gracián

Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.

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Charles Dudley Warner

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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