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| Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. |
| by Aristotle |
| It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. |
| by Edmund Burke |
| Laws control the lesser man...Right conduct controls the greater one. |
| by Chinese Proverb |
| For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. |
| by Johann Von Goethe |
| Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. |
| by William Hazlitt |
| I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. |
| by Michel De Montaigne |
| Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours. |
| by Akhenaton |
| Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong. |
| by Vita Sackville-West |
| Revenge...is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. |
| by Jeremy Taylor |
| A bird in the hand is safer thantwo overhead. All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries. |
| by William Temple |
| Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. |
| by Voltaire |
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