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Letter "A" » admired
«I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it»
«I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.»
Author: Damon Runyon
(Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Innovation
| Keywords:
admired, chap, chaps, Citizens for, diaper, diapers
«I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.»
«It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.»
Author: Richard Wilbur
| Keywords:
address, admired, Congress of, constitute, directly, neighbors, self taught
«I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
admired, cooked, Eskimo, Eskimos, One Fine Day
«I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.»
Author: Shirley MacLaine
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admired, come into, introduce, introduces, introducing, represents, sleeping
«Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Love
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admired, at first, at first sight, a hundred, a hundred times, cast, circumstances, degree, expression, favorable, figure, haunted, hundred, meeting, perfection, realizing, sight, sight seeing, The Haunted, The Haunting
«Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.»
«Many a man has been a wonder to the world, whose wife and valet have seen nothing in him that was even remarkable. Few men have been admired by their servants.»
«It often happens that those who in their lives were applauded and admired, are laid at last in the ground without the common honor of a stone; because by those excellences with which many were delighted, none had been obliged, and, though they had ma»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
admired, applauded, common ground, delighted
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