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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. – Socrates

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I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time. – Bill Cosby

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Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, hed lie just to keep his hand in. – Harry S. Truman

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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. – Washington Irving

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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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