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"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."
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"There are charms made only for distant admiration."
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"Let her know that her look really works for you."
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"...would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!"
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"When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror."
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"If there is ever a magical beauty that can be watched hours with great admiration, and that is the beauty of a strong light falling from the everlasting skies into the heart of the dimness!"
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"Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be."
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"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."
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"It was as if she was a dream, like London, which he could not entirely grasp and of which he was not worthy. He wanted to be part of it but had forgotten how. It seemed extraordinary and strange that this paragon among women had condescended to travel on his ship. In fact, she'd insisted upon it. Her presence was at once otherworldly and familiar, none of which explained why his brain ceased to function when he was in her company."
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"I like to see you fully naked like the complete moon."
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"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."
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"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."
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"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
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"Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process."
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"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves."
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