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Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.


Voltaire
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
Graham Greene
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Elegance is inferior to virtue.


Mary Shelley
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don Marquis
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler
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Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.


George Chapman
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No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.
Thomas Vernor Smith
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The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd).
Louis MacNeice
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.


Irwin Shaw
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I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.


Richard Wagner
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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
Ezra Pound
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We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
Anthony Powell
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
Alan Alda
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Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.
Louise Slaughter
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The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
John Woolman
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
Caitlin Moran
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
John Jay Chapman
Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.
William Bligh
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