"A good deed never goes unpunished.“

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"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all."

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"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over."

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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."

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"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."

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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

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"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."

-Jude Law

"God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God."

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"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true."

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"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."

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"Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline."

-William Hague

"It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core."

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