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«Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.»
«If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.»
«It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.»
«Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.»
«Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.»
«I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.»
«Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? All the cosmetics names seemed obscenely obvious to me in their promises of sexual bliss. They were all firming or uplifting or invigorating. They made you tingle. Or glow. Or feel young. They were prepared with hormones or placentas or royal jelly. All the juice and joy missing in the lives of these women were to be supplied by the contents of jars and bottles. No wonder they would spend twenty dollars for an ounce of face makeup or thirty for a half-ounce of hormone cream. What price bliss? What price sexual ecstasy?»
«Good government is no substitute for self-government»
«In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice»
«Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.»

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