"The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great……" — Jean de la Bruyere

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• Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may… — George Matthew Adams
• After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. — Buffalo Bill
• Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still… — Charlotte Bronte
• All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. — Juvenal
• Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
• Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
• Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or… — Robertson Davies
• Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel… — Robert Collier
• Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker… — John Stuart Mill
• Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account. — Hannah Whitall Smith
• I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm… — Jackie Kennedy
• Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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