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"Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease."
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"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."
"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
"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."
"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."
"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."
"To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her."
"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."
"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
"She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra."
"But all I could see was her. No skill of mine, no artist anywhere, could've immortalized how gorgeous she was. It was impossible to believe she'd ever had any doubts about her body. The firelight shone on her skin, golden and perfect, making her look like some radiant goddess of legend. I wanted to kneel before her and offer eternal obedience."
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"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."
"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."
"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing."
"To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author."
"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."
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