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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. — Wystan Hugh Auden
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although… — John James Audubon
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances,… — Saint Augustine
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine
To seek the highest good is to live well. — Saint Augustine
There is no possible source of evil except good. — Saint Augustine
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. — Marcus Aurelius
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. — Marcus Aurelius
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. — Marcus Aurelius
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after… — Marcus Aurelius
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. — Marcus Aurelius
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this… — Marcus Aurelius
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good… — Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. — Jane Austen

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