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• The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better – it is just turning around as usual.

  Finley Peter Dunne

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  Tags in World, Better, Turning

• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien… that the more you see it the better you like it.

  Finley Peter Dunne

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• A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

  Samuel Johnson

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

  Samuel Johnson

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• It is better to live rich than to die rich.

  Samuel Johnson

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• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

  Samuel Johnson

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• It is better to look good than to feel good.

  Fernando Lamas

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  Tags in Better, Good

• These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

  Felix Mendelssohn

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  Tags in Genuine, Better, Music

• On becoming a mother, I sort of feel like every kid is my kid. I really do get that sense in a much more profound way that we all are a global community and we all have to band to try and give the children of our this generation whatever tools we can to go out into this world and try and make it a better place.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Topics in Children, Mother

  Tags in Better

• I can’t wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, ‘No, don’t do it.’ I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, ‘Why did you do that?’

  Felicity Huffman

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  Tags in Good, Think, Better

• I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it’s how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

  Felicity Huffman

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  Tags in Person, Better, Balance
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  Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

  Maya Angelou

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• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  Samuel Butler

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• To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

  Samuel Butler

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• After so many changes, I realized I’d better cling to my own family and to what I’ve got right here.

  Suzy Bogguss

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• The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

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• It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Developed, Better

• If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

  Sun Myung Moon

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• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Topics in Beauty

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• There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

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  Tags in People, Better, Learn