"Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)"
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"Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise."
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"I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse."
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"Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse."
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"Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise."
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"The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise."
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"There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event."
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"He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time."
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"Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander."
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"Lord! who hath praise enough?"
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"When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent."
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"What is life? A continuous praise and blame."
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"Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach."
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"Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve."
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"When you praise someone you call yourself his equal."
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"One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame"
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"Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original."
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"Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise."
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"The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else."
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"Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise."
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