Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.
I've read that same formula, but as an athlete I'm classified as phenomenal. You could look it up.
The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.
I never looked at being second banana to anybody, I never felt that way, ever. If other people did, that's the way they looked at it, but I never did.
Everyone has the impulse to be elite.
It's nice to be No. 1, for sure.
Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.
The quest for some unmistakable proof of superior status and identity replaces the ideal of success for many .... the history of modernization is largely one of carnage and bedlam rather than peaceful convergence.