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"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."
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"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."

"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."

"Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease."

"Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration."

"He was generally aware that he had been blessed in her beauty; even in her usual homespun, knee-deep in mud from her garden, or stained and fierce with the blood of her calling, the curve of her bones spoke to his own marrow, and those whisky eyes could make him drunk with a glance. Besides, the mad collieshangie of her hair made him laugh."

"She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra."

"No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment."

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

"You are a perfect woman, a magical blend of beauty, intelligence, and spirit. Without you, my life is nothing."
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"The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique."

"That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend."

"Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift."

"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird."
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