Quote by Mark Twain
When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. – Mark Twain

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

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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. – Wilson Mizner

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God was just showing off when he created you. – From the movie Keeping the Faith

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