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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only. ↗

— Howard Coble

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

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The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. ↗

— Edward V. Lucas

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For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. ↗

— Josh McDowell

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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me. ↗

— Moliere

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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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