"You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much."
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"Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students."
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"That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness."
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"The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . ."
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"What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary."
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"I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper."
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"You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me."
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"How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!"
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"Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)"
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"Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises."
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"When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new."
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"Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise."
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"Where there is no difficulty there is no praise."
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"The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain."
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"None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood."
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"Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due."
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"A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good."
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"We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory."
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"There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you."
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"We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more."
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