Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
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How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire! 134
Blaise Pascal
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity.
Andrea Dworkin
I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love.
John Steinbeck
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Malcolm Bradbury
I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words,
Or have lingered awhile and said
Polite meaningless words.William Butler Yeats
Bierce, Ambrose
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