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Than Quotes by Mason Cooley
- Hatred observes with more care than love does.
- General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
- In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
- Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
- The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
- At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
- The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
- In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
- Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
- If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
- We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
- Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
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