"You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt"
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"We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments."
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"Bad artists always admire each others work."
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"There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible."
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"Admiration is the basis of ignorance."
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"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."
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"I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour."
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"Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values."
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"Season your admiration for a while."
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"Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases"
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"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."
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"If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration."
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"There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge."
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"I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist."
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"How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals."
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"Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?"
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"Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one."
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"I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration."
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"Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened."
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"Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains."
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