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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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"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."
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"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."
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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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"There are charms made only for distant admiration."
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"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."
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"No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment."
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"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
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"You are a perfect woman, a magical blend of beauty, intelligence, and spirit. Without you, my life is nothing."
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"I see you from afar-fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift."
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"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."
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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
Marriage
"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."
Fame
"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."
Politics
"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
Life
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
Happiness
"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."
Danger
"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."
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"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost."
Religion
"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."
Wealth
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
Wisdom
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