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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.


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death is better than a poor one.
MICHAEL MOORCOCK Humans are born, then they die. Thus is it better to not have been born at all?
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two works better than those.
ANONYMOUS Your purpose is to make this world a better place than the one you were born into
EMILY BLAKEMAN All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
VOLTAIRE The place where you are happy is better than the place you were born.
VIKRANT PARSAI It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born
JOHN RUSKIN “All creatures are born isolated and have no need of one another."
MARQUIS DE SADE No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Bear in mind, Sancho, that one man is no more than another, unless he does more than another.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
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VICTORIA AVEYARD Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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Than to be perked up...
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No one is better at what they do than Mark is. He's the best.
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JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU I saw the tears of the oppressed—
and they have no comforter;
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR.

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