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"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."
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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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"Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration."
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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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"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."
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"A woman, desires to hear nice words from a man who can praise her beauty."
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"There are charms made only for distant admiration."
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"Let her know that her look really works for you."
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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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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
People
"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."
Home
"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
Friendship
"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us."
Truth
"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."
Literature
"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."
Religion
"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."
Man
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
Acting
"The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature."
Nature
"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."
Heart
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