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• State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the… — Thomas Jefferson
• It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than… — Norm MacDonald
• If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. — Angela Thirkell
• I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the… — Mahatma Gandhi
• It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. — Seneca the Younger
• Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all… — Aldo Leopold
• I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are… — Penelope Fitzgerald
• Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better. — Mary McLeod Bethune
• But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals. — Warren Zevon
• Art is so often better at theology than theology is. — Christian Wiman
• Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — George Eliot
• When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man… — Mary McLeod Bethune

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