“There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips book It Had to Be You
Source: It Had to Be You
“Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.”
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"Florence Green is 81".
Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964)
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Omnium autem rerum, ex quibus aliquid adquiritur, nihil est agri cultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius.
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Book I, section 42. Translation by Cyrus R. Edmonds (1873), p. 73
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