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It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.''
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of `culture'.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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It is better to receive than to do injury.
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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
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It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
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It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
On War (1832) -
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
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It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (1823) XXXIII
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