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gen. who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet; all things are known by comparison; everything is comparative (felog); who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet (WiseSnake); you had to put things into perspective (DoctorKto); everything is relative (Tanya Gesse); put things into perspective ("We need to put things into perspective. When I was a rookie, we only won 23 games. And now some people say winning 58 is kind of a down year. That's incredible." -Thompson, on Golden State finishing 58-24 in the regular season. VLZ_58)
proverb cognition comes through comparison
rhetor. the values of things are determined by comparing them to their likes (Alex_Odeychuk)