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«The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| Keywords:
coincide, coincides, compliment, conclusions, Feel free, Free Inquiry, inquiries, set free
«I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.»
«There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering»
Author: Minna Antrim
| About:
Being a Woman,
Compliments,
Truth
| Keywords:
compliment, latter, oblique, unflattering
«The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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answer, asked, attended, compliment, complimented, ever, greatest, paid, The Greatest, thought
«Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke»
«No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.»
«Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.»
«There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me --I always feel that they have not said enough.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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answer, compliment, complimented, embarrass, embarrasses, have-not, There Is Nothing
«I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Compliments
| Keywords:
complaint, compliment, courteous, insured, insures, insuring, precede, reception, receptions, resentment, softens
«Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
compliment, courtesies, melted, trim, trimmed, trimmer, trimmest, trimming, trims, valor
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