"The worst time is always the present."
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"Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem."
"The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best."
"The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else."
"The worst lies of all are the ones we tell ourselves. They are the most damaging."
"I'm not the best of you, but I'm not the worst either."
"The more haste, ever the worst speed."
"I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s."
"Are you the sum total of your worst acts?"
"...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much."
"An intellectual hate is the worst."
"O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out."
"We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst"
"The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!"
"And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst."
"Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is."
"My parents have always been very respectful of me so I’ve always been really respectful of them. My worst fear is to let them down so that’s why I don’t misbehave."
"My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing."
"There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come."
"The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic."