distinguished quotes

   I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

-Boswell,James
  Journal entry, 20  Jan. Collected in F  A Pottle (ed) Boswell's London Journal (1950).

Always to be best, and to be distinguished above the rest.

-Homer   8c
c.700  BC  Motto of the hero Glaucus. Iliad, bk.6, l.208 (translated by Martin Hammond.

You are honored by your friends†distinguished by your enemies. I have been very distinguished.

-Hoover,J(ohn) Edgar
Address to the House Sub-Committee on  Appropriations. Quoted in Curt Gentry  J Edgar Hoover (1991).

So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!

-James, Henry
Quoted in Edith Wharton  A Backward Glance (1934), ch.14, section 3.  According to Wharton, these were  James's last words.

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