#vantage

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. ↗

— David Hume

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In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food. ↗

— Joseph Hume

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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. ↗

— Dean Inge

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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

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I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. ↗

— David Attenborough

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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves. ↗

— Edward Bach

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I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. ↗

— Lord Byron

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