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We are happy, and contented: and if we change, we shall be discontented and unhappy, as so many of what they call our betters are.

Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Maria Edgeworth 1808

The envy and resentment of your betters is very clear from your weak arguments.

Envy and Resentment, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

"The envy and resentment of your betters is very clear from your weak arguments."

Envy and Resentment, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

One of these days, flirting with my betters is going to get me in trouble.

A late night encounter and musings on the same ZenMondo Wormser 2007

One of these days, flirting with my betters is going to get me in trouble.

Archive 2007-05-01 ZenMondo Wormser 2007

Thy toime fur saucin 'thy betters is past an' gone.

That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story 1877

Many a one had tried to pump Patsy, -- the people had an inordinate curiosity about their "betters" -- and of late tongues had been very busy with the return of Mrs. Comerford and the reconciliation with Lady O'Gara: also with

Love of Brothers Katharine Tynan 1896

That was the reason why they and their children had been all their lives on the verge of starvation and nakedness, whilst their 'betters' -- who did nothing but the thinking -- went clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

A cleverly constructed and vivid collection of memoirs with flashes of brilliant wit, this title betters even Dancing

Books by Wil Wheaton 2009

A cleverly constructed and vivid collection of memoirs with flashes of brilliant wit, this title betters even Dancing

Audiobooks 2009