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Quality: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.— MARCUS AURELIUS — Meditations. Ch. IX. 9.

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.— BURNS — For A' That and A' That.

Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.— COOPER — The Ways of the Hour. Ch. VI.

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!— DICKENS — Nicholas Nickelby. Ch. XXXIV.

Fine by defect, and delicately weak.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 43.

That air and harmony of shape express, Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.— PRIOR — Henry and Emma. L. 432.

Come, give us a taste of your quality.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 451.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.— MADAME DE STAËL — Germany. Pt. II. Ch. VIII.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.— WALT WHITMAN — Leaves of Grass. Song of the Broad-Axe. St. 4.

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.— N. P. WILLIS — Necessity for a

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