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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of progress or improvement. John Stuart Mill
My second wife - I was still young then - she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. It took me years to lose her again after that. She was a good woman. It is not easy to lose a good woman. If one must marry it is better to marry a bad woman. Graham Greene
Martin Luther quote: "Therefore nothing were better for us than soon to be conveyed..."
Therefore nothing were better for us than soon to be conveyed to the last dance, and covered with shovels. Martin Luther
... I ran to the children's room: their door was ajar, I saw they had never laid down, though it was past midnight; but they were calmer, and did not need me to console them. The little souls were comforting each other with better thoughts than I could have hit on: no parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk; and, while I sobbed, and listened. I could not help wishing we were all there safe together. Emily Bronte
Marilyn Monroe quote: "It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex..."
It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all. Marilyn Monroe
Diana announced that she would just give me time to get over the honey-moon, and then she would come and see me.'She had better not wait till then, Jane,' said Mr. Rochester, when I read her letter to him; 'if she does, she will be too late, for our honey-moon will shine our life-long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. Charlotte Bronte
I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it. Bill Bryson
The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man.? The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier. David O. McKay
Stephen King quote: "I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on..."
I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal. Stephen King
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "And you and I had better go work on the land. I want to..."
And you and I had better go work on the land. I want to scrape the earth with my hands. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Paulo Coelho quote: "Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought..."
Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought to himself, anddecided to say nothing. Paulo Coelho
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another. Arthur Schopenhauer
He’s playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. Don’t blame me because he’s a better manipulator than I am — I haven’t been around long enough to learn all his tricks. Stephenie Meyer
Erich Segal quote: "I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he..."
I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said."Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps. Erich Segal
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left..."
Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred. P. G. Wodehouse

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