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Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful
Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful
A eulogist of past times.
[Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]
A eulogist of past times.
[Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]
He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
[Lat., Id facere laus est quod read more
He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
[Lat., Id facere laus est quod decet, non quod licet.]
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
