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He who betters a man betters himself. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters. — George Herbert

But this is what it means to be civilized - doing what her betters say she should, for the ostensible good of all. — N.K. Jemisin

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. — Ayn Rand

Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will affront,
What man alive can stand the brunt? — Jonathan Swift

The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid. — Tommy Armour

I love my solitude, and I would love it still more if I had more of it. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision ... In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker. — David Lloyd George

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence. — Mary Astell

To believe something strongly when it is clearly hard to define and prove, and has not been proven, is to be prejudiced. — Simon Ramo

Frequent the company of your betters. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters. — Jack Vance

I love you, Skye. You're in my heart, in my head, under my skin. You're my present and my future. — Stephanie Witter

A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. — Archibald Cox

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have. — H.L. Mencken

Secrets are a responsibility and a painfully taxing one at that. — Jonas Lee

No, but your idea of what betters human life might differ from someone else's.' For — Alan Dean Foster

I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters
mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming. — Arthur Wimperis

It is absurd to ape our betters. — Aesop

A blush only reminds me how blood is just under the surface of everything. — Chuck Palahniuk

You've got another problem. Like most white trash, you're disrespectful to your betters and proud of your stupidity and ignorance. — James Lee Burke

When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole. — Thomas Perez

Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social. — William Makepeace Thackeray

She's no beauty, mate — Libba Bray

I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story. — Warren Spector

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues. — Anne Bronte

Religion is important to the order of society. It reconciles the lower classes to their lot in life and teaches them to respect their betters. — C.S. Harris

Try to be the best even if you can't be the best, you will be among the betters. — Debasish Mridha

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters. — Jonathan Swift

Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid — Dave Barry

Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters. — Warren Buffett

If luck wouldn't find him, we would do his best to make his own. — Michael Punke

It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters. — El Greco

I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done. — Rudyard Kipling

Love betters what is best — William Wordsworth

Sometimes expecting too much lands you nowhere in life.. — Shivam Singh

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him. — Samuel Johnson

They were not victors, he and his kind, not in any way, they were the defeated still, for they had become like their betters. — Ursula K. Le Guin

asks as I turn. "A bow to your betters won't go awry, doncha — Pierce Brown

When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes. — William Shakespeare

In short, we can only learn from our "betters". — Mortimer J. Adler

You have an alarming streak of chivalry for a butler. I'd accuse you of aping your betters, but I have met your houseguests. — Caroline Dunford