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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. ↗

— Jean Paul

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I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom. ↗

— Richard Price

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. ↗

— Alan Patrick Herbert

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If the American people don't love me, their descendants will. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations. ↗

— Michael Johnson

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Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers. ↗

— Marco Rubio

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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. ↗

— Sallust

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Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is. ↗

— Julian Sands

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