"Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness."
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"Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense."
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"Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use is to be served, one man will do nearly quite as well as another; if a high one, individual excellence is to be regarded."
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"The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds."
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"A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them."
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"That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters."
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"[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal."
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"Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence."
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"We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us."
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"The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose"
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"Excellence is going the extra mile."
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"The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth."
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"Excellence costs a great deal."
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