"A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer…" — Napoleon Bonaparte

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• Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and… — Russell Baker
• Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity,… — Charles Baudelaire
• For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. — Joe Biden
• Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight.… — Damon Hill
• Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by… — Ajahn Brahm
• When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get… — Aberjhani
• When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
• I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of… — LeRoy Neiman
• I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth.… — Benjamin Disraeli
• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary… — Albert Camus
• There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that… — Samuel Johnson
• When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on… — Saint John Chrysostom

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