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«These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts.»
«Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit»
«No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.»
«Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.»
«Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.»
«It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.»
«I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.»
«There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.»
«I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends; but I rank dividends below human character»
«O! my offence is rank, it smells to heaven.»

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