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“We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“ADMIRATION, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“There is an innocence of admiration: it is possessed by him to whom it has not yet occurred that he himself may be admired some day.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
“One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. As things stand, admiration and respect are given to the man who seems to be rich. This is the chief reason why people wish to be rich. The actual goods...” Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“After some other mistakes, I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself.” Voltaire, Candide
“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Within every one of us there lives both a Don Quixote and a Sancho Panza to whom we hearken by turns; and though Sancho most persuades us, it is Don Quixote that we find ourselves obliged to admire...” Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“By learning to see and appreciate beauty, we learn to reject self-interested pragmatism. If someone has not learned to stop and admire something beautiful, we should not be surprised if he or she treats everything as an object to be used and...” Pope Francis, Laudato si'
“Confound you handsome young fellows! you think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Miss Fairfax, ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl... I have ever met since... I met you.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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