"Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately……" — Joseph Addison

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• A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
• No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can… — Jane Austen
• As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long… — John Adams
• Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
• This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. — Ludwig van Beethoven
• Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. — Ambrose Bierce
• He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. — Aeschylus
• He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of… — Jo Brand
• I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot… — Wilford Brimley
• Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of… — Julie Burchill
• Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. — Dale Carnegie

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