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Superior

(noun) A person of higher rank or quality.

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"To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness."
— Benjamin Franklin
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
— Confucius
"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."
— Confucius
"I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit."
— Theodore Roosevelt
"It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance."
— Thomas Sowell
"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."
— Confucius
"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."
— Socrates
"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
— Confucius
"Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty."
— George Washington
"In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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