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"All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest."
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"If we come from the water, I conclude that we come from different kinds of it. I will meet a person and in his eyes see an ocean, deep and never ending; then I will meet another person and feel as though I have stepped into a shallow puddle on the street, there is nothing in it. Or maybe some of us come from the water, and some of us come from somewhere else; then it's all a matter of finding those who are the same as us."

"Drop comparison and you are free. Don't compare, don't compete, just be yourself."

"Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on."

"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us."

"The Scarehouse is like Turkey Soap. The Girl House is better as a film!"

"He who hunts deer must not boast to he who hunts buffalo."

"The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive."

"A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination."

"Comparison is a disease, one of the greatest diseases."

"Milk for infant as liquor for adult."
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"The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant."

"The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal."

"Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do."

"Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures."

"From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured."

"The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master."
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