"It is a good deed to forget a poor joke."

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"All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect."

Walter Annenberg, American Businessman

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"It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?"

Algernon H. Blackwood, British Author

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"A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words."

Kong Fu Zi, Chinese Philosopher

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"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."

Peter Marshall, Scottish Clergyman

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"Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below."

Lewis J. Bates, American Educator

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"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."

Chanakya, Indian Politician

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"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."

Dodie Smith, English Dramatist

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"Our words have wings, but fly not where we would."

George Eliot, British Author

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"How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."

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