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Quack . The two sources of all quack-talent are cunning and impudence. {Carlyle.}
Qualities . Decision and perseverance are the noblest qualities of man. {Goethe.}
Qualities . For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. {Carlyle.}
Qualities . Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind, but it is good-breeding that sets them off to advantage. {Locke.}
Qualities . In choosing friends, we should choose those whose qualities are innate, and their virtues virtues of the temperament. {Amiel.}
Qualities . In love we never think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. {Hazlitt.}
Qualities . In spite of all the evil that is said of the unfortunates, kings sometimes have their good qualities too. {The Miller of Sans Souci.}
Qualities . Liberty, and not theology, is the enthusiasm of the nineteenth century. The very men who would once have been conspicuous saints are now conspicuous revolutionists, for while their heroism and disinterestedness are their own, the direction which these qualities take is determined by the pressure of the age. {H. W. Lecky.}
Qualities . Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. {Hare.}
Qualities . Mental courage, infinitely rarer than valour, presupposes the most eminent qualities. {Diderot.}
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