Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.
William Lyon Phelps
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
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This is the final test of a gentleman; his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
- William Lyon Phelps