Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive."
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Second Best
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Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about."
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils."
Amit Abraham
Author, Entrepreneur
"Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere"
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"By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."
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"When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best."
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"Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came"
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"Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test."
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"The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon."
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