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Distance is a great promoter of admiration! - Denis Diderot

Distance is a great promoter of admiration! – Denis Diderot

Other quotes by Denis Diderot

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice. – Denis Diderot

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Gambling (Gaming)
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Denis Diderot
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. – Denis Diderot

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Theater
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Denis Diderot
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. – Denis Diderot

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Fanaticism
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Denis Diderot
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Admiration
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. – Joseph Addison

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Admiration

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. – Theophile Gautier

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Admiration

You always admire what you really dont understand. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Admiration

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. – Benjamin Franklin

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Admiration

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The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins. – Clara Barton

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Too many people say to their brokers, I cant deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. Thats the worst attitude you can have. – Maria Bartiromo

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Attitude

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. – Frederick William Robertson

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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. – Jacqueline Schiff

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