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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I’m doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I’m not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn’t know anything.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
The best interpreter of the law is custom.