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Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be… — Gary Saul Morson
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. — Maxine Hong Kingston
The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes. — Zac Posen
Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of. — Ronda Rousey
Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their… — Clive James
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess… — Blaise Pascal
Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there… — Edgar Allan Poe
All that we got here is American made. It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed. — Frank Zappa
Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of… — Chris Hadfield
Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet. — Mignon McLaughlin
All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the… — George Crabbe
Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to… — Mervyn Peake
Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full… — Abraham Coles
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn… — Thomas Hartwell Horne
None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon… — John Muir
You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to… — Courtney Milan
This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look… — Vladimir Lenin
When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give… — Charles Caleb Colton
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace… — John Keats

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