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W Somerset Maugham
: People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
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W Somerset Maugham quote-People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. ...
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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
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Proverb :
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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
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Norman Vincent Peale :
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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Proverb :
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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
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Mary Kay Ash :
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There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
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Marquis De Vauvenargues :
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
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Denis Diderot :
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Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.
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Oliver Goldsmith :
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Good people all, with one acord, Lament for Madame Blaize, Who never wanted a good word — From those who spoke her praise.
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Thucyclides :
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Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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W Somerset Maugham :
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People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
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It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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