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"A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

Bishop, Jim on criticism
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"Good deeds from good intentions flow; but good intentions only; build for us a place below."

Unknown, Source on deeds and good deeds
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"Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others."

Chesterfield, Lord on ancestry
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"Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."

Bierce, Ambrose on acquaintance
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"Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger."

Jones, Franklin P. on criticism    Share

"The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth."

Farnham, Eliza on truth    Share

"We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on acquaintance
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"An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on friends and friendship
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"He teaches me to be good that does me good."

Fuller, Thomas on example
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"Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment."

Whipple, Edwin P. on irony
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"To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries."

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"Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night."

Aikman, Leo on worry
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"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."

Hemingway, Mary on worry    Share

"Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue."

Confucius on sincerity
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"Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on pleasure
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"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth."

Pascal, Blaise on rest
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"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer."

Thoreau, Henry David on compliments    Share

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

Eliot, George on compliments    Share

"Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them."

Fuller, Thomas on compliments    Share

"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."

Hugo, Victor on compliments
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"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes."

Wilde, Oscar on compliments
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never."

Colton, Charles Caleb on love
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"There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures."

Penn, William on friends and friendship
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"Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love."

Wastholm, Peter on women
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"Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own."

Wilson, Thomas on friends and friendship
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