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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Paul Theroux

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I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage. ↗

— Micky Dolenz

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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. ↗

— Edward Dowden

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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. ↗

— David Trimble

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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason. ↗

— William Godwin

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I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead. ↗

— Witold Gombrowicz

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Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series. ↗

— James Loeb

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. ↗

— Octavio Paz

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