"Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire."
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"It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man."
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"Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage."
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"We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment."
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"The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect."
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"The rogue has everywhere the advantage."
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"Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them."
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"But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time."
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"Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages."
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"There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation."
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"One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves."
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"It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!"
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