"Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill."
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"There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame."
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"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."
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"Usually we praise only to be praised."
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"Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding."
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"The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them."
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"Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous."
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"We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means."
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"Praise day at night, and life at the end."
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"Praise none too much, for all are fickle."
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"Praise a hill, but keepe below."
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"Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it. [Old praise dies unless you feed it.]"
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"True praise rootes and spreedes."
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"Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition."
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"I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —"
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"The envier praises me unknowingly."
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"A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read"
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"Brooklyn praise is half slander."
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"What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?"
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"The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure."
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