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"I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it."
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"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion."
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"Let her know that her look really works for you."
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"I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler."
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"She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra."
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"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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"You're not actually falling for him, are you?" he asks her one day, on one of the rare occasions he can get her alone."I'll pretend you didn't just ask that," she tells him in disgust. But Connor has reasons to wonder."On that first night here, he offered you his blanket, and you accepted it," he points out."Only because I knew it would make him cold.""And when he offers you his food, you take it.""Because it means he goes hungry."It's coolly logical. Connor finds it amazing that she can put her emotions aside and be as calculating as Roland, beating him at his own game. Another reason for Connor to admire her."
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"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."
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"We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure."
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"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
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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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"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
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"We say little, when vanity does not make us speak."
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"When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them."
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"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."
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"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
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"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss."
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"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."
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"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."
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"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."
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"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."
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