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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
Charles Lamb

Men, Nothing, Another

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Enough, Impossible, Times

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Louis Kronenberger

Age, Time, Goal

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac D'Israeli

Before, Lies, Mediocrity

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Marilyn vos Savant

Words, Speak, Able

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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza

Difficult, Rare

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Baltasar Gracian

Cannot, Somebody, Teach

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
Augustus Hare

Follow, Vain, Indeed

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
Alexander the Great

Knowledge, Others, Rather

But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.
Keanu Reeves

Made, Once, Adventure

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
P. T. Barnum

Life, Money, Fire

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
Douglas Sirk

Happy, Weak, Promise

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Good, Best, Lost

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.
Horace Walpole

Help, Cannot, Admire

At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.
Liam Neeson

Sex, Help, Poor

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
Thornton Wilder

Good, Moment, Danger

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Tom Peters

Change, Excellence, Constant

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
Ferdinand Foch

Giving, Situation, Shall

Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
Henrik Ibsen

Word, Lies, Foreign

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Federico Fellini

Place, Genius, Nietzsche

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
Laurence Sterne

Mind, Him, Making

Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
Henrik Ibsen

Word, Lies, Foreign

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.
Twyla Tharp

Child, Means, Turn

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza

Great, Men, Difficult

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
Donald Berwick

Health, Care, Less

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
Tom Peters

Two, Tough, Found

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar

Human, Study, Place

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
Twyla Tharp

Mean, Wanted, Dancing

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
Mortimer Adler

Men, Three, Value

I think women are excellent social critics.
Laurie Anderson

Women, Social, Critics

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