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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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"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!"
"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."
"I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist."
"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."
"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."
"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
"...would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!"
"I see you from afar-fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift."
"The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited."
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"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."
"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."
"That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time."
"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."
"Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed."
"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
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