#superior

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior. ↗

— William Shenstone

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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. ↗

— William Shenstone

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The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. ↗

— Hu Shih

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Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it. ↗

— Paul Simon

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Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. ↗

— Adam Smith

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Defense is superior to opulence. ↗

— Adam Smith

#opulence #superior

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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