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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.: Saki (1870 - 1916)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Results from Classic Quotes:

The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Modern Manners, 1983
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.: Hugh Blair
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden

Results from Cole's Quotables:

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.: H. H. Munro, (Saki)
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006), The Affluent Society (1958)
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.: Ann Douglas

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death: H.H. Munro (Saki)

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Results of search for Quote: improved - Page 1 of 2 Showing results 1 to 10 of 11 total quotations found.