"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
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"In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth."
"Education is an admirable thing."
"U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans."
"Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable."
"Nature is an admirable schoolmistress."
"My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable."
"A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster."