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"What is easy is seldom excellent."

"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."

"Quality is better than quantity."

"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."

"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect."

"The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand."

"Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality."

"It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality."

"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it."
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"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."
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