#inferior

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#enjoy #friends #inferiority #most #people

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#inferiority-complex #education

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#courtship #dignity #empowerment #equality #feminism

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#break #constantly #down #i #i am

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#am #beings #fond #full #i

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#book #class #enters #every #him

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. ↗

— Mark Twain

#man #recovery #right #wisdom #wrong

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira. ↗

— William Bligh

#bought #contract #fifteen #good #inferior

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#been #business #i #inferior #lead

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#considerable #good #great #inferiors #most