“One good Art's better than a thousand bad.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Fab. LVII: Of the Fox and the Cat
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
“It is better to be a good human being than to be a bad one. It is just naturally better.”
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
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