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• The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Panic, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.182, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.

  Gary Gygax

  Playing Games, Giving, Mind

  Interview with Allen Rausch, pc.gamespy.com. August 15, 2004.

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• There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.

  Norm MacDonald

  Youth, Company, Desirable

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• Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Gossip, Reputation, Wit

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• Children...will never go astray while they are in good company.

  Francis M. Lyman

  Friendship, Children, Company

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• A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Mirth, Sin

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 2

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• Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.

  Cato the Younger

  Art, Men, Arise

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• Books are always good company if you have the right sort.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Book, Company, Ifs

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “All the 4 Little Women Books: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys”, p.833, e-artnow

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• Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

  Luis Barragan

  Men, Solitude, May

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• Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

  E. B. White

  Book, Happy Times, People

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• Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

  Andy Grove

  Bad Company, Crisis, Great Company

  Said in December 1994. "Creating the Digital Future: The Secrets of Consistent Innovation at Intel". Book by Albert Yu, p. 93, 1998.

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• There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.

  Joseph Joubert

  Self Esteem, Men, Long

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• Cecy, what are you doing here?" She took a step forward, then paused on the threshold, glancing down at her bare feet. “I could ask of you the same.” “I like to talk to the horses at night. They make good company. And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls.

  Cassandra Clare

  Horse, Night, Feet

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

  Jane Austen

  Friendship, Nice, Mean

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.296, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

  Eric Schlosser

  Food, Practice, Trying

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 14, 2006.

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• To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Taken, Writing, Men

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• I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? I tell them, Try to feel like a molecule; and if you work hard, who knows? Some day you may get to feel like a big molecule!

  George Wald

  Hard Work, Knowledge, Science

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• Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Real, Nice

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne's House of Dreams”, p.66, Gideon House Books

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• Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.

  Bryan Procter

  Mother, Wall, Wine

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• To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was extremely amusing and darn good company providing you weren't quarrelling with him.

  John Landy

  Running, Personality, Charming

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• Talking, texting or tweeting on your phone is the worst in any social situation. I went to a lunch during Paris Fashion Week, and I managed to steal a few moments with Lee Radziwill - who I think is perhaps the classiest woman alive - and she said this is her biggest pet peeve too. So I'm in good company.

  Derek Blasberg

  Fashion, Thinking, Pet

  "What This Party Pro Knows About Being a Fabulous Host (or Guest)". Interview with Adam Glassman, www.oprah.com. November 22, 2011.

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• In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.

  Rumer Godden

  Running, Thinking, Solitude

  Rumer Godden (1961). “Rungli-Rungliot means in Paharia, Thus far and no further”

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• Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Cooking, Calories, Chores

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.

  Topher Grace

  Dad, Scripts, Firsts

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• Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.

  Garry Wills

  Children, Self, Politician

  "Lead time". Book by Garry Wills, 1983.

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