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

— Edward Dowden

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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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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will. ↗

— Dario Argento

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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

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