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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. – James Russell Lowell

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. – Joseph Addison

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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious. – George Bernard Shaw

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