"Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient." — H. L. Mencken

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• On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live… — Alain de Botton
• Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go,… — Rajneesh
• Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions. — Joseph Joubert
• Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed… — Thomas Carlyle
• Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families… — Robert Baden-Powell
• A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause… — Freeman Dyson
• for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise… — Aristotle
• Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and… — Bill Gates
• There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings. — Sri Chinmoy
• Men become old, but they never become good. — Oscar Wilde
• Like so much of what is worthwhile in life, our needs for friendship are often best met in the home.… — Marlin K. Jensen
• That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in… — Donald O'Connor

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