Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • John Ruskin Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
    The seven lamps of architecture
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Publilius Syrus Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • B. C. Forbes Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Better to be without logic than without feeling.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Joseph Addison Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Robert H. Schuller Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • George S. Patton Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Auberon Waugh Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.
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  • William Arthur Ward Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • John Milton Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
    Paradise lost (1667) I, 263
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.''
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Al Sharpton Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Audre Lorde Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • O. Henry Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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