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Quote by Nicholas Boileau
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you. -

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you. – Nicholas Boileau

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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. – Nicholas Boileau

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

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When Im talking to a large audience, I imagine that Im talking to a single person. – Red Barber

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I never let them cough. They wouldnt dare. – Ethel Barrymore

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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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