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• I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

  Freddie Mercury

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• Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

  E. F. Schumacher

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• Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

  Edna Ferber

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• Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

  Thomas Browne

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• All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

  William Faulkner

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• In outward show so splendid and so vain; ’tis but a gilded block without a brain.

  Phaedrus

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• If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

  Origen

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