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«If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it [but] people would be better off buyin' chickens.»
«Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.»
«The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them»
«If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans»
«According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.»
«If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.»
«The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.»
«If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.»
«Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you.»
Author: Jack Handy (Writer) | Keywords: better off, well-off
«Our country is wherever we are well off»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | About: Country | Keywords: well-off

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