"A pleasing countenance is no light advantage."
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"I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along."
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"The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance"
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"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out."
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"Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled."
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"Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day."
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"I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great."
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"Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love."
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"The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent."
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"For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power."
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"Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous."
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"Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects."
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"Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?"
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"But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music."
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"One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do."
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"Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for."
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"Take all the swift advantage of the hours."
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"...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything."
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"I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage."
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"Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them."
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