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Ernest Hemingway Quotes: There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
         

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.


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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.



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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.



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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.



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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.



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I drink to make other people more interesting.



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