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Admiration; is our polite recognition of anothers resemblance to o

Admiration; is our polite recognition of anothers resemblance to ourselves. – Ambrose Bierce

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Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection. – Ambrose Bierce

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A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce

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Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. – Ambrose Bierce

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Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. – Bible

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Evaluate what you want — because what gets measured, gets produced. – James A. Belasco

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Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips. – Bible

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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But. – Henry Ward Beecher

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