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Letter "A" » at best
«Life at best is bittersweet.»
«At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.»
«An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.»
«No man is happy. He is, at best, fortunate.»
«May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best -- out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.»
Author: May Sarton
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Keywords:
ambiguous,
at best,
crystal,
crystal clear,
irrelevant,
mixed,
private life,
relevant,
singular,
The Absolute,
the Crystal
«Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.»
«Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
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Essayist,
Theologian,
Writer)
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Keywords:
abortion,
at best,
block out,
comparable,
compulsion,
hewing,
hewn,
in full view,
knocked,
limbs,
sprung,
transit,
yields
«If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt?rateur, or a musical confectioner, or a painter of fans with cupids and cocottes. Handel had power.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
at best,
Best A,
confectioner,
confectioners,
Cupids,
decorative,
Handel,
musical style,
stroke
«Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.»
«History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
History
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Keywords:
at best,
history,
in and of itself,
Itself,
repeat,
rhymed,
rhymes,
rhyming,
sometimes,
The Histories