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Quote by Jean Rostand
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires wit

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. – Jean Rostand

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A body of work such as Pasteurs is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. – Jean Rostand

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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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Fools admire, but men of sense approve. – Alexander Pope

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