Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?
Love betters what is best
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.
The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.
It is absurd to ape our betters.
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
Frequent the company of your betters.
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. . . . It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.
