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• Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
• You understand the Klingons better than I thought. Thank you, my friend.
  -- Klag and Riker, "A Matter of Honor", stardate 42506.5...
• A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
  -- Old Testament -- Psalm lxxxiv, 10...
• When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
• It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
• It is better to live rich than to die rich. -- Samuel Johnso
• And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night iv, Line 17...
• Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
  -- Nathaniel Emmo...
• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
  -- Saddi...