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"We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us."
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"It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you."
"So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts."
"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."
"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."
"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong."
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"As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing."
"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years."
"In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us."
"What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give."
"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."
"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
"One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one."
"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."
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