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In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
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Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
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The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
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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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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal of pleasurable and genial feeling.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
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The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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'Twas never merry world since lowly feigning was Galled compliment.
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