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"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
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"If a man admires a woman he had something in his mind that he would like to carry further. If a woman admires a man, she had definitely made up her mind."
"You are a perfect woman, a magical blend of beauty, intelligence, and spirit. Without you, my life is nothing."
"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."
"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."
"By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown."
"There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day."
"She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra."
"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."
"I like to see you fully naked like the complete moon."
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"Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white."
"Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue."
"Grief is an artist of powers as various as the instruments upon which he plays his dirges for the dead, evoking from some the sharpest, shrillest notes, from others the low, grave chords that throb recurrent like the slow beating of a distant drum. Some natures it startles; some it stupefies. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, stinging all the sensibilities to a keener life; to another as the blow of a bludgeon, which in crushing benumbs."
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
"A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
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