#admirable

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects. ↗

— Edna Ferber

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The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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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. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. ↗

— George Will

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People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. ↗

— Helen Hayes

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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

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