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"eminent positions make eminent men greater and little men less." »La Bruy?re
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"The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do." »Jose Maria Peman, Spanish writer, El Divino Impaciente
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent." »Jonathan Swift
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"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss." »Winston Churchill
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"A man eminent in learning has not even a little virtue if he fears to practise it. What precious things can be shown to a blind man when he holds a lamp in his hand?" »The Hitopadesa
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"Amongst all possessions knowledge appears pre-eminent. The wise call it supreme riches, because it can never be lost, has no price, and can at no time be destroyed." »The Hitopadesa
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"Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph." »Joseph Addison
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"In some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth as excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised they will either openly detract from his virtues; or, if those virtues be, like a clear and shining light, eminent and distinguished, so that he cannot be safely traduced by the tongue, they will then raise a suspicion against him by a mysterious silence, as if there were something remaining to be told which overclouded even his brightest glory." »Feltham
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