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Jeremiah Seed Quotes: Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.
         

Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.


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For we seldom admire the wit, when we dislike the man.

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