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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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"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."
"Take those praises with a level head, you must not be distracted by them. After all, purpose still awaits you."
"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong."
"It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you."
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"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."
"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"
"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."
"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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