"Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself." — Jeffrey Eugenides

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• The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who… — Jean de la Bruyere
• Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground. — Dante Alighieri
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• The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his… — Blaise Pascal
• One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted… — Harold Rosenberg
• Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds… — William Shenstone
• The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It… — Alexander Hamilton
• There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes… — Malcolm X
• Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our… — Jacques Chirac
• But of course there are all kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear… — David Foster Wallace
• I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know… — Paul Wolfowitz
• I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad… — Manuel Puig

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