The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
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Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely.
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
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