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In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.


Leo Tolstoy

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P. J. O'ROURKE If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
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ABRAHAM MASLOW The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. BRADLEY The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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KAI EIDE The best education gives you the necessary skills to solve real problems and carry out the necessary...
EVARIST BARTOLO True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.
CHARLES EISENSTEIN The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect
MARK TWAIN No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.
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NICK CAVE As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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HEINRICH HEINE Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —Leo Tolstoy
CHRISTINE PORATH Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.
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CAEDEN DEMPSEY When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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LUCIUS C. FALKLAND When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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LEO TOLSTOY Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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LEO TOLSTOY Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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LEO TOLSTOY History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.
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LEO TOLSTOY Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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LEO TOLSTOY I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
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LEO TOLSTOY God is the same everywhere.
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LEO TOLSTOY While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything.
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LEO TOLSTOY Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
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LEO TOLSTOY He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing t...
LEO TOLSTOY If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by...
LEO TOLSTOY Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one ...
LEO TOLSTOY I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's...
LEO TOLSTOY All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
LEO TOLSTOY Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was...
LEO TOLSTOY Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had...
LEO TOLSTOY In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubbl...
LEO TOLSTOY Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was ...
LEO TOLSTOY You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love...
LEO TOLSTOY He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happines...
LEO TOLSTOY One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
LEO TOLSTOY The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.
LEO TOLSTOY Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resou...
LEO TOLSTOY