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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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"I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist."

"Let her know that her look really works for you."

"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion."

"Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world."

"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."

"Rather than critique people, try admiring God's creative handiwork."

"Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration."

"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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"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."

"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."

"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?"

"In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton."

"But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation."

"When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror."
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