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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

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I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me. ↗

— Clara Hughes

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. ↗

— Shana Alexander

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That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds. ↗

— Mary Astell

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Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#common people #excellent #keeping #people #quiet

I excelled in English while I was at school. ↗

— Jamie Bell

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#excellence #good #inspires #made #manly

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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