Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Lord George Byron I have always laid it down as a maxim - and found it justified by experience - that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex - but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bill Shankly I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.
    From his autobiography Its More Important Than That
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Horace I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Jessamyn West I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
    Jessamyn West
    American author of short stories and novels (1902 - 1984)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Johnson I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alan Greenspan I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Mark Twain I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Sculley I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.
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  • Dwight L. Moody I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • John F. Kennedy I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, ''Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.''
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • William Butler Yeats I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Noam Chomsky I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Sir Humphry Davy I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
    Sir Humphry Davy
    British chemist and inventor
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  • Aeschylus I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • John Stuart Mill I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Arthur Miller I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • George Michael I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.
    George Michael
    English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist (1963 - 2016)
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  • Malcolm X I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
    3 december 1964
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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