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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.