• Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner
  American writer 1897-1962
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. contemporaries
2. predecessors
3. yourself

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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. by : William Faulkner

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