Admiration

1. Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
                                                                 -Addison, The Spectator 

2. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
                                                                      -Bierce, The devil's 
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3. Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
                                                                                     -Diderot

4. We always love those who admire us, and we always do not love those whom we admire.
                                                                       -La Rochefoucauld

5. For fools admire, but men of sense approve.
                                                               -Pope, Essay on Criticism