"Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment."
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"I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet."
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"It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words."
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"An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency."
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"The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another."
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"Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat."
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"You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite."
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"She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon."
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"Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features."
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"Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."
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"She's a total bam bam."
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"My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more."
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"You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment."
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"It hasn't escaped my notice that you only compliment me when you're intoxicated."
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"I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love."
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"Everybody appreciates a compliment."
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"Everybody likes compliment."
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"If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago."
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"Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to."
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"The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment."
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