"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody……" — Philip Dormer Stanhope

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• Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and… — Lord Chesterfield
• The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul… — Charles Spurgeon
• False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and… — Jean de la Bruyere
• A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one. — Alexander Pope
• The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself,… — Sigmund Freud
• Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men. — Lucullus
• History admires the wise, but elevates the brave. — Edmund Morris
• Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said… — Nikki Sixx
• Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more… — John Derbyshire
• No animal admires another animal. — Blaise Pascal
• Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics… — William J. Clinton

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