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Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.
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But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
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Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
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Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? Not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
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In all our efforts to provide ''advantages'' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.''
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In war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.
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It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
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It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
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Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.
Source: The Player of Games (1988) 279 -
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
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