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"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."
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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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"...would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!"
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"When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror."
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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!"
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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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"Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be."
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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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"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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"I like to see you fully naked like the complete moon."
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"The incentive to ambition is the love of power."
Love
"Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else."
Nature
"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."
Friendship
"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."
Friendship
"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
People
"We can scarcely hate anyone that we know."
Hate
"Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse."
Death
"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."
Home
"Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted."
Life
"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
Friendship
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