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second best

«Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law»
«It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.»
«There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best»
Author: Doris Lessing (Novelist, Writer) | About: Sin | Keywords: persuade, second best, The Second
«Surgery is always second best. If you can do something else, it's better.»
«Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.»
«We must as second best...take the least of the evils.»
«We always end up doing the thing we are second best at.»
Author: Marcel Proust (Author, Novelist) | Keywords: second best
«Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say;Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day;The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.»