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1  Perhaps you had better write to him.
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2  You had much better let me have it, Basil.
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3  You like your art better than your friends.
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4  I like Wagner's music better than anybody's.
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5  It is better not to be different from one's fellows.
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6  When I was in the Diplomatic, things were much better.
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7  He won't like you the better for keeping your promises.
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8  Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men.
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9  Anything would be better than this dreadful state of doubt.
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10  My wife is very good at it--much better, in fact, than I am.
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11  I have never been in better form for painting than I am to-day.
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12  It is rather late, and, as you have to dress, you had better lose no time.
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13  Don't be cruel to me, because I love you better than anything in the world.
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14  "That is certainly better than being adored," he answered, toying with some fruits.
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15  I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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16  "Oh, she is better than good--she is beautiful," murmured Lord Henry, sipping a glass of vermouth and orange-bitters.
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17  He could not bear this marriage, and yet it seemed to him to be better than many other things that might have happened.
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