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"In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it."
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"So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts."
"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."
"It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you."
"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."
"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."
"All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo."
"A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise."
"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong."
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"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."
"I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less."
"My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall."
"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you."
"When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth."
"Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics."
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