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Tame animals have abetternaturethan wild, and it is better for all animals to be ruled by man.
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What was this sudden impost set upon the appeal to thebetternatureand the better judgment of the people to stop smoking?
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I can only hope that if hisbetternaturehas had time to reassert itself, he will share my delight on this occasion.
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It is no good appealing to theirbetternatureeither.
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One will have to rely on thebetternatureof the health authority or the statutory water undertaker.
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He had to introduce, no doubt much against hisbetternatureand better judgment, a charge per item on prescriptions.
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I appeal to his experience and, indeed, hisbetternature.
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It is an appeal to thebetternatureand the dignity of my fellow countrymen and the throwing of responsibility upon them.
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It is kind of him to suggest that mybetternatureis always on display here.
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He indulged in a piece of wishful thinking that, since his argument was not very convincing, he might appeal to mybetternature.
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If we appeal to theirbetternature—and some of them do not appear to have abetternature—we will not be very successful.
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We are not going to get them reformed by appealing to theirbetternature.
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But, quite frankly, you cannot rely upon thebetternatureof employers to respond in that way, or not for the most part.
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That sort of popular uprising can sometimes work, when appealing to thebetternatureof the banks might not.
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