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«If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself»
«Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
invariably, lesser, slink, slinking, slinks
«I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.»
«Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.»
«It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.»
«Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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afford, bitten, clearly, consequences, contention, contentions, contested, Contests, dog bite, good temper, including, killing, larger, lesser, loss, path of least, Personal Best, Personal self, quarrel, resolved, self control, spare, spare time, temper, The Dog, vitiated, vitiating, yield
«Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
invariably, lesser, slink, slinking, slinks
«Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.»
«I remember dreaming about it, about being on TV. I remember seeing Children of a Lesser God on Broadway. I was sitting in the second or third row, and I was just so blown away, and I walked out saying, 'That's what I want to do.»
«Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Right
| Keywords:
conduct, controls, Laws, lesser
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