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«If you want a place in the sun, you had better be prepared to put up with a few blisters»
«I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.»
«If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.»
«I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.»
Author: William Feather | Keywords: had better
«I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: had better
«In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.»
«In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.»
Author: Jane Austen (Novelist, Writer) | About: Affection | Keywords: affection, cases, had better, nine
«It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.»
Author: Pearl S. Buck | About: Religion | Keywords: had better
«It looked as if a night of dark intentWas coming, and not only a night, an age.Someone had better be prepared for rage.There would be more than ocean-water brokenBefore God's last 'Put out the Light' was spoken»
«If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.»

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