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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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"The time of persecution and problems is the time to thank and praise God."

"Why Polish the Gold? It builds your confidence when you realize that your words have power and can positively influence. As you seek to find the good in others, you will enjoy the ripple effect reminder for finding the good in yourself. It makes a great ice-breaker to begin a conversation. It helps you meet new people and make new friends. It strengthens your relationships and builds mutual admiration. It brings more happiness and joy into your life. A little praise goes a long way to make others happy."

"We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled."

"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong."

"All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo."

"In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it."
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"A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train."


"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"


"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."


"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."


"When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion."


"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."
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