"Superiority" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they took long walks together on the mountains. This was contrary to mountain etiquette, but they were remote even from the rude conventionalities of the life below them. They even went hunting together, and Easter had the joy of a child when she discovered her superiority to Clayton in woodcraft and in the use of a rifle. If he could tell her the names of plants and flowers they found, and how they were akin, she could show him where they grew. If he could teach her a little more about ...
— A Mountain Europa • John Fox Jr.
... state in which he now exists is the most dominant animal that has ever appeared on this earth. He has spread more widely than any other highly organised form: and all others have yielded before him. He manifestly owes this immense superiority to his intellectual faculties, to his social habits, which lead him to aid and defend his fellows, and to his corporeal structure. The supreme importance of these characters has been proved by the final ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
... nature had experimented on her; it was in the reproduction that perfection had been reached. To see the father, the mother, and the daughter together it was not difficult to fashion a theory as to the latter's splendid health and physical superiority. Arriving at this point, however, theory began to fray at the ends. No one could account for the genius and the voice. The mother often stood lost in wonder that out of an ordinary childhood, a barelegged, ...
— The Place of Honeymoons • Harold MacGrath
... favor from Chris and the mulatto, but they were prudently silent, for the Spaniard was obviously the master-spirit of the unprepossessing gang. Even Montes, cruel and greedy as he was, yielded him the palm of superiority in ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 • Various
... of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as ...
— Book of Wise Sayings - Selected Largely from Eastern Sources • W. A. Clouston
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