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"There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket."
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"It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you."
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"Praise the sea, on shore remain."
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"Wonder is involuntary praise."
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"The sweetest of all sounds is praise."
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"So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts."
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"Praise the bridge that carried you over."
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"To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view."
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"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."
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"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong."
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"Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all. charm is deceptive, beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised."
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"Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing."
Nothing
"He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure."
Peace
"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."
Folk
"To marry a fool is to be no fool."
Fool
"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all."
Public
"Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired."
Work
"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right."
Right
"We die only once, and for such a long time."
Time
"As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt."
Men
"It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh."
People
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