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A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
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Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
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Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
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Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
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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.
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
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Nothing wholly admirable ever happens in this country except the migration of birds.
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On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
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