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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Jane Austen

Alone, Woman, Enough

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Thomas Fuller

Travel, Wise, Fool

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
George W. Bush

Life, America, Path

I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!
Cat Cora

Life, Best, Successful

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.
Donald Trump

Funny, Rich, Poor

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda Meir

Successful, Job, Woman

A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Benjamin Disraeli

Best, Majority, Repartee

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Andrew Jackson

Worth, Takes, Believes

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Jane Austen

Woman, Show, She

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne

Others, Order, Express

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
Robert W. Service

Society, Human, Down

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
Peter Tosh

Life, Good, Best

A good example is far better than a good precept.
Dwight L. Moody

Good, Far, Example

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs

Greatest, Deed, Intention

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Hypatia

Reserve, Wrongly

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
Joey Adams

Marriage, Give, Her

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
George Eliot

Love, Best, Outside

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
Henry A. Kissinger

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.
Mos Def

Crazy, Rude, Shy

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson

Best, True, Cannot

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Plutarch

May, Find, Difficult

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
Stephen King

God, Daily, Speak

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
Lewis Carroll

Late, Proverb, Prefer

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
David Sarnoff

Work, Peace, Happiness

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Jane Austen

Person, Ourselves, Guide

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
Jim Henson

Hope, Here, Leave

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Thomas Aquinas

Others, Shine, Truths

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel Johnson

Happy, Children, Find

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
Ani DiFranco

Love, Trying, Tell

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren

Life, Mistakes, Play

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