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Distinguished Quotes by John Sergeant Wise
- My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
- In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President…
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- Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. — Ambrose Bierce
- Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One… — Adam Braun
- If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it… — Arthur C. Clarke
- What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say… — Sam Manekshaw
- It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. — Horace Mann
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world.… — Samuel Johnson
- After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing… — Henry Adams
- Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder… — Marcus Aurelius