Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Baltasar Gracián A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Francis Bacon A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Corra May Harris A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Oliver Herford A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.
    Oliver Herford
    American writer, cartoonist (1860 - 1935)
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  • Robert M. Hutchins A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
    Robert M. Hutchins
    American educational philosopher (1899 - 1977)
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  • Leonard Bernstein A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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  • Cyril Connolly A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Ching Ning Chu Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
    Ching Ning Chu
    Chinese-American business consultant
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  • Robert Half Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Bette Davis Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Barry Eisler Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Albert Pike Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Luc de Clapiers Action makes more fortune than caution.
    Luc de Clapiers
    French writer and moralist
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  • Carolyn Wells Actions lie louder than words.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Donald Sinden Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
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