You rose on your right syde here ryght. And might haue gon further, and haue faren wurs.
[1546 J. Heywood Dialogue of Proverbs ii. iv. G3V]
Come, Sir John, you may go further, and fare worse.
[1738 Swift Polite Conversation ii. 58]
She's just as rich as most of the girls who came out of India. I might go farther and fare worse.
[1848 Thackeray Vanity Fair iv.]
He would have said, perhaps, with his plainness and simplicity and the smirk of satisfaction you see on his portrait, that one can fare further and fare worse.
[1938 G. Greene in Spectator 12 Aug. 271]
Related to: content and discontent
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