That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.
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On Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1831).Thomas Babington Macaulay
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My own experience in reading Dickens...is to be bounced between violent admiration and violent distaste almost every couple of paragraphs, and this is too uncomfortable a condition to be much alleviated by an inward recital of one's duty not to be fastidious, to gulp the stuff down in gobbets like a man.
Charles Dickens
How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire! 134
Blaise Pascal
Every fall I imagine once again that something wonderful will happen at a party. This is like imagining that the telephone book will prove to be a wonderful novel.
John Leonard
It is a great joy to admire someone without reserve; love which is founded upon admiration of the mind as well as the body of the chosen person undoubtedly affords the keenest delight.
Andre Maurois
I am charmed with your book — enchanted. You are a wonderful creature, the most wonderful in the world — you and your other half together — Miss Sullivan, I mean, for it took the pair of you to make a complete and perfect whole.
Helen Keller
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