"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."

Society, Praise, Criticism, Irony, Judgment

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"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."

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