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“Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing: not that honor makes them excellent.” Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
“There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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