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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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"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."
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"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."
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"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."
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"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."
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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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"There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day."
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"I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist."
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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 like to see you fully naked like the complete moon."
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"She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra."
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"We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread."
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"But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?"
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"The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable."
Nature

"But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification."
Nature

"In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton."
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"When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror."
Admiration

"I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman."
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"But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation."
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