Quotes with holier-than-thou

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• I would always rather be happy than dignified.

  Charlotte Brontë
  British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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• I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

  Elisabeth Gaskell
  British writer (1810 - 1865)
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• I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

  Cato the Elder
  Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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• I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

  Sophocles
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
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• I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

  Queen Elizabeth I
  Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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• I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

  Alben W. Barkley
  American lawyer and politician (1877 - 1956)
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• I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

  Elbert Hubbard
  American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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• I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

  Plautus
  Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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• I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  Jack London
  American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney) (1876 - 1916)
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• I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

  Thomas Jefferson
  American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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• I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

  Julius Caesar
  Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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• I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

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  Bobby Fischer
  American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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• I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

  Adlai Stevenson II
  American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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• I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

  Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

  Aneurin Bevan
  British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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• I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

  Alexander Smith
  Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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• I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson
  American president (1856 - 1924)
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• I would rather clean than beg.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist and author (1969 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• inconveniences
• knowledgeable
• appreciate
• remembered
• brilliant
• permanent

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