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Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 4330.

• I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

  Alexander the Great
  Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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• I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

  Woodrow Wilson
  American president (1856 - 1924)
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• I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.

  R. A. Torrey
  American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer (1856 - 1928)
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• I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

  Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
  American fighter pilot in WW I (1890 - 1973)
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• I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

  Gerry Spence
   
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• I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
  

  Harry S. Truman
  American president (1884 - 1972)
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• I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

  Robert Green Ingersoll
  American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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• I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

  Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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• I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!

  Woodrow Wilson
  American president (1856 - 1924)
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• I would rather make my name than inherit it.

  W. M. Thackeray
  Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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• I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

  Phaedrus

  Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• I would rather start a family than finish one.

  Don Marquis
  American writer (1878 - 1937)
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• I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

  Edward Dahlberg
  American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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• I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

  George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

  John Keats
  English poet (1795 - 1821)
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• I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

  William Somerset Maugham
  English writer (1874 - 1965)
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• I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conversation
• excellent
• snuff-box
• ignorance
• president
• paintings

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