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In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. ↗

— Douglas Horton

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But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

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In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison. ↗

— Derek Bailey

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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. ↗

— Dorothy Corkville Briggs

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A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness. ↗

— Robert Cecil

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