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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
— Voltaire
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An editorial interpretation.
Appreciating someone else's excellence, the quote says, lets you share in it. Admiration turns what they've achieved into something you also own in a sense. The archive notes this is attributed to Voltaire but unsourced, so the attribution is uncertain.
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