#comparative

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother. ↗

— Plautus

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Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration. ↗

— David Ricardo

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All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. ↗

— George Saintsbury

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Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#advance #best #cannot #comparatively #great

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

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