"What is easy is seldom excellent."
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"There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent."
"It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view."
"An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices."
"It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody."
"Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things."
"Logic is an excellent weapon when employed correctly."
"If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God."
"Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building."
"You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding."
"It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols."
"Number, the most excellent of all inventions."
"a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others."
"Ben Foster dealt with the purchase of my house and service was excellent. Excellent Service all round."
"Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing."
"Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty."
"Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger."
"A good indignation makes an excellent speech."
"There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified."
"The reality is more excellent than the report."