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If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance. - Margery Allingham In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. - Robert Hall It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says. - Sir Roger L'Estrange It is difficult to instruct children because of their natural inattention; the true mode, of course, is to first make our modes interesting to them. - John Locke (1) Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius. - James Russell Lowell He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. - Robert Redford Lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold. - William Shakespeare I never knew any man cured of inattention. - Jonathan Swift Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, and science depend upon it. Newton traced back his discoveries to its unwearied employment. It builds bridges, opens new worlds, and heals diseases; without it taste is useless, and the beauties of literature are unobserved. - Robert Aris Willmott
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