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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

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People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. ↗

— Alex Campbell

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I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

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These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar. ↗

— William Cavendish

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