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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Surprises
Josh Billings

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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Strategies
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
Self-love
Malcolm De Chazal

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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Insomnia
Leonard Cohen

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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Action
Confucius

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The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.
Superiority
Confucius

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The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
Action
Confucius

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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Virtue
Confucius

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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Right and Rightness
Confucius

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What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others.
Superiority
Confucius

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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
Anger
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Modesty
Benjamin Franklin

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Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
Strength
James A. Froude

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Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
Ugliness
Serge Gainsbourg

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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
Pessimism
John Kenneth Galbraith

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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humor
Roman Gary

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No one man is superior to the game.
Teams and Teamwork
A. Bartlett Giamatti

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I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
Economy and Economics
Edward Gibbon

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Courage
Samuel Johnson

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No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Cooperation
Samuel Johnson

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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
Greatness
Samuel Johnson

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He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
Advice
Karl Von Knebel

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Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.
Excellence
Orison Swett Marden

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Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.
Self-respect
Peter Mcarthur

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Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
Churches
H. L. Mencken

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