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«Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.»
«Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.»
«Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.»
«A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.»
«A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.»
«Belief means not wanting to know what is true»
«Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.»
«Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.»
«But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.»
«Character - a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means.»

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