"We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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

"You're a good man, Hunter."

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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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"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."

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