"Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness."
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"Education is no substitute for intelligence."
"We must substitute courage for caution."
"I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another."
"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance."
"Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust."
"Nutritional supplements are not a substitute for a nutritionally balanced diet."
"There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness."
"Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge"
"Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel."
"There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all."
"There's no substitute for loyalty."
"There's just no substitute for the truth."
"The government can supply no substitute for enterprise."
"It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband."
"What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute."
"No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact."
"Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better."
"The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs."