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Samuel Johnson

"There are charms made only for distant admiration."

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"There are charms made only for distant admiration."

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"I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world."

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"I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it."

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"Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said."That's not what I meant."

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"I'm not one to let such a striking man pass without looking my fill."

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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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"If a man admires a woman he had something in his mind that he would like to carry further. If a woman admires a man, she had definitely made up her mind."

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"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."

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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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"They are bright and exciting. Like America. Like its women."

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"The birds in the sky can never great the king yet their beauty gives the king to stare at them endlessly, wishing to be with them in the sky."

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