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• God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

  ― Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

  Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. IX

  ― Anne Brontë
  British writer (1820 - 1849)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• incompetent
• superiority
• sanctuary
• macerated
• betters
• slander

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