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Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone
Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone
Never compare what other do best but do compare what you do best.
Never compare what other do best but do compare what you do best.
For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay
For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay
Its not its what your country can do for you what you could do for your country.
Its not its what your country can do for you what you could do for your country.
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set read more
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.
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures read more
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception
A compliment is verbal sunshine
A compliment is verbal sunshine
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter read more
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering