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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times. ↗

— Philip Schaff

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It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself. ↗

— Barbara Sher

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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world. ↗

— Morarji Desai

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do. ↗

— Leonard Alfred George Strong

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