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«I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
| Keywords:
adult, Company of, infinitely, invariable, issue, preferable, take issue, term
«Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth»
«It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.»
«Judicious omission is preferable to correct superfluity»
Author: Walter Kidde
| Keywords:
judicious, omission, omissions, preferable, superfluities, superfluity
«Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.»
«Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.»
«A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
impossibility, likely, possibility, preferable, unconvincing
«No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Business,
Relationships
| Keywords:
contagious, contagious disease, preferable
«Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.»
«Delay is preferable to error.»
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