#excel

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. ↗

— Plutarch

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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. ↗

— Plutarch

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Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends. ↗

— Richard Rorty

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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. ↗

— P. T. Barnum

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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it. ↗

— Hesiod

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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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I excelled in English while I was at school. ↗

— Jamie Bell

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