Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • William S. Gilbert No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Philip Crosby No one can remember more than three points.
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  • Seneca No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • James Baldwin No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Robert Wilson No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Claudius No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
    Claudius
    Roman emperor (10 - 54)
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  • Cyril Connolly No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Alexander Pope No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Aristotle No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • George Orwell No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Samuel Johnson No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Cal Thomas No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Henry Giles No principal is so noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Hannah Arendt No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bob Riley No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Bill Engvall No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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