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  • Samuel Johnson I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Don Marquis I would rather start a family than finish one.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Edward Dahlberg I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Rabbi Harold S. Kushner I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.
    Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
    American rabbi (1935 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Douglas Adams I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Robert H. Schuller I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Mother Teresa I'd rather bathe lepers than be interviewed by the press.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • George Burns I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Bryce Harper I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Ken Kesey I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
    Ken Kesey
    American writer (1935 - 2001)
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  • G. Kaufman I'd rather be a poor winner than any kind of loser.
    G. Kaufman
     
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  • Margaret Drabble I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Mick Jagger I'd rather be dead than singing ''Satisfaction'' when I'm forty-five.
    Mick Jagger
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Kurt Cobain I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Victor Hugo I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Henry Clay I'd rather be right than President.
    Henry Clay
    American lawyer, planter, and statesman (1777 - 1852)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Jimmy Buffet I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
    Jimmy Buffet
    American singer-songwriter and actor
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