#yardstick

That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done. ↗

— Robert Hamer

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The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

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Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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