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Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry. -- Emily Dickinson
He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter... -- Sara Gruen
An angel; or, if not, An earthly paragon. -- William Shakespeare
"The Bush administration is a paragon of wisdom." -- George Sanders
Analyzin' miss clairol, fendi'd down mascara on, assistant manager in paragon -- Raekwon
What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed. -- Stephen King
He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act. -- Johann Ludwig Tieck
I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest. -- Steve Coogan
Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance. -- David Burge
Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do. -- Steve Coogan
...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most. -- David Nicholls
I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health' or go on bike rides with Lance Armstrong. I'm not. Trust me. -- Duff Goldman
He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child. -- Laozi
He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice. -- Voltaire
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself. -- Richard Dawkins
To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the dentist,the shortcomings of your cleaning woman, the state of your bowels, or your spouse's bad habits. You will be thought a paragon (or perhaps a monster) of good behavior. -- Mason Cooley
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life. -- R. C. Sproul
We can paint unrealistic pictures of the juggler--displaying her now as a problem-free paragon of glamour and now as a modern hag.Or we can see in the juggler a real person who strives to overcome the obstacles that nature and society put in her path and who does so with vigor and determination. -- Faye J Crosby
Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it. -- Emily Bronte
My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

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