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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being compli

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. РAndr̩ Gide

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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. РAndr̩ Gide

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Writing
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André Gide
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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. РAndr̩ Gide

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Adversity
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It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity. – John Addington Symonds

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Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. – Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899

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It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Compliments

What flatterers say, try to make true. – German Proverb

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When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself. – Edgar Cayce

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Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. – Thomas Malthus

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After my second-to-last record, The Greatest, I had gone on tour for a while, and I didnt play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of – its not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself – but disappointed in myself that I hadnt been challenging myself to learn musically. – Cat Power

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Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books. – Simon Raven

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