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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
George Bernard Shaw
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Seneca
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Thomas Paine
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess
Mark Twain
We wish to attract praise to ourselves even as we seem to be praising others
François de la Rochefoucauld
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
Mary H. Waldrip
Where there is no difficulty there is no praise
Samuel Johnson
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