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title: "2 Admiration Surprise Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“sometimes Moran wondered if her chief merit was her willingness to serve as a human receptacle for details. Sympathy and admiration and surprise she dutifully yet insufficiently expressed, and afterward the others moved on, forgetting her face the moment she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yiyun-li/sometimes-moran-wondered-if-her-chief-merit-was-her-willingness-to/)

[Yiyun Li](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yiyun-li/)

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> [“admiration —and surprise. It was nearly unheard of for a woman to hold property, he knew, even a woman of her rank and independence. "And you feel”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-hiatt/admiration-and-surprise-it-was-nearly-unheard-of-for-a-woman-to-hold/)

[Brenda Hiatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-hiatt/)

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