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    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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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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At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone.

At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone.

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Some say, compared to Bononcini,
That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;
Others aver, that he to Handel
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Some say, compared to Bononcini,
That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;
Others aver, that he to Handel
Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle:
Strange all this difference should be,
'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!

by John Byrom Found in: Comparisons Quotes,
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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.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Comparisons Quotes,
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Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.

Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.

by John Lydgate Found in: Comparisons Quotes,
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They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?

They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?

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Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's
three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.

Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's
three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.

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Our similarities are different.

Our similarities are different.

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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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