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It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
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It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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It is better to go on striking in the same direction than to move one's forces this way and that.
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It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
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It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
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It is better to have loft and lost than to never have loft at all.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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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 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 suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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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 books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
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It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
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It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.
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