distinctive quotes

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We see us as we truly behave:
From every corner comes a distinctive offering.
The train comes bearing joy....
A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. ...
This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fa ...
The obese is ... in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. H ...
Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are,
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We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust ...
When we study human language, we are approaching what some might call the 'human essence,' the distinctive qualities of mind that ...
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art ...
For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved, ...
I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched t ...
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