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I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order. ↗

— Rick Moody

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The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order? ↗

— John W. Foster

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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science. ↗

— James Madison

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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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