Compared

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    Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Warm in December, cold in June, you say?”
    “I don’t suppose the water’s changed at all.
    You and I know enough to know it’s warm
    Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm.
    But all the fun’s in how you say a thing.”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else—these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstacies cheap and trivial.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)