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"A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise."
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"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."

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

"But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality."

"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."

"It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you."
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."

"There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us."
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