"A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself."
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"The finest poetry was first experience."
"The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread."
"The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground."
"You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend"
"This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power."
"All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature."
"Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess."
"An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement."
"A stunner…reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest."
"Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it."
"The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness."