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- There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway
- Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
- John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
- We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.
- Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929)
- I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
- Peter Cooper
- A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
- S. I. Hayakawa
- A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
- Rupert Brooke
- That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
- He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.
- Hindoo Maxim
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