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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Aaron McGruder I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
    The Boondocks
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Alice James I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Edith Wharton I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charlotte Brontë I would always rather be happy than dignified.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Elisabeth Gaskell 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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  • Cato the Elder 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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  • Samuel Johnson 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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  • Sophocles I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Queen Elizabeth I 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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  • Alben W. Barkley 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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  • Elbert Hubbard 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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  • Plautus 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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  • Jack London 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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  • Samuel Johnson 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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  • Thomas Jefferson 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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  • Julius Caesar I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Bobby Fischer 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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  • Adlai Stevenson II 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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