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The human mind is generally farmore eager to praise and dispraise than to describe anddefine.

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Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him as the giver, of her as the gift. Don’t we in prais...more

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Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

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The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reas...more

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I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It i...more

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. . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.

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The madrigore of verjuice must be talthibianised.

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The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

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Justice shall be mixed with mercy. You shall not always be an Ass.

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Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them...more

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[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't thi...more

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She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

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Adventures are never fun while you're having them.