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| Some people are molded by their ADMIRATIONs, others by their hostilities. | Elizabeth Bowen | 1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist |
| The system of book-keeping by double entry is, perhaps, the most beautiful one in the wide domain of literature or science. Were it less common, it would be the ADMIRATION of the learned world. | Edwin T. Freedley | 1827-1904, British Business Writer |
| Fools admire, but men of sense approve. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| A mixture of ADMIRATION and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. | Andre Maurois | 1885-1967, French Writer |
| Don't accept your dog's ADMIRATION as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. | Ann Landers | 1918-, American Advice Columnist |
| ADMIRATION is the daughter of ignorance. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts ADMIRATION by resembling the original, we do not admire. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier! | Carol Alt | 1960-, American Model |
| To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
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| Distance is a great promoter of ADMIRATION! | Denis Diderot | 1713-1784, French Philosopher |
| You always admire what you really don't understand. | Eleanor Roosevelt | 1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian |
| The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. | Francis H. Bradley | 1846-1924, British Philosopher |
| We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the ADMIRATION of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers. | Horace | BC 65-8, Italian Poet |
| Two things fill me with constantly increasing ADMIRATION and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within. | Immanuel Kant | 1724-1804, German Philosopher |
| The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. | Jean Rostand | 1894-1977, French Biologist, Writer |
| ADMIRATION is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
| If you want to sacrifice the ADMIRATION of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. | Katharine Hepburn | 1907-, American Actress, Writer |
| Great is our ADMIRATION of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
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| It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the ADMIRATION of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant. | Margaret Fuller | 1810-1850, American Writer, Lecturer |
| Between flattery and ADMIRATION there often flows a river of contempt. | Minna Antrim | 1861-18?, American Epigrammist |
| The greatest ADMIRATION gives rise not to words, but to silence. | Musonnius | |
| Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. | Nero Wolfe | |
| We live by our imagination, our ADMIRATION s, and our sentiments. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you. | Rupert Brooke | 1887-1915, British Poet |
| There are charms made only for distance ADMIRATION. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is ADMIRATION. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with ADMIRATION is a passive contemplative mood. | Susan Sontag | 1933-, American Essayist |
| 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. | Thomas Mann | 1875-1955, German Author, Critic |
| Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of ADMIRATION. | William Hazlitt | 1778-1830, British Essayist |
