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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about christianity, knowledge, power, good, good luck

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Quote by William Godwin about gifts, earth, reason, man

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about cowardice, ability, imagination

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

Quote by Witold Gombrowicz about humor

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov about opinion, genius, children