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    Some say, that Seignior Bononchini
    Compar'd to Handel's a mere Ninny;
    Others aver, to him, that Handel
    Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.
    Strange! that such high Disputes shou'd be
    'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

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Our similarities are different.

Our similarities are different.

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And but two ways are offered to our will,
Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,
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And but two ways are offered to our will,
Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,
The problem still for us and all of human race.

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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou
art any one of read more

Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou
art any one of the multitude may be.
[Lat., Hoc ego, tuque sumus: set quod sum, non potes esse:
Tu quod es, e populo quilibet esse potest.]

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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
[Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]

Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
[Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]

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It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

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It's wiser being good than bad;
It's safer being meek than fierce:
It's fitter being sane than read more

It's wiser being good than bad;
It's safer being meek than fierce:
It's fitter being sane than mad.
My own hope is, a sun will pierce
The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;
That, after Last, returns the First,
Though a wide compass round be fetched;
That what began best, can't end worst,
Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.

by Robert Browning Found in: Comparisons Quotes,
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Comparisons are odious.

Comparisons are odious.

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Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.

Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.

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Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is
solid refinement.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is
solid refinement.

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