The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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Chapter 34.Samuel(novelistButler
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You praise a man for having killed his enemy by means of an advantage; and by praising him for boldness you praise him for a sin against nature, because boldness leads to destruction.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Praising companies for providing APIs to get your own data out is like praising auto companies for not filling your airbags with gravel.
Mark Pilgrim
The planting of hemp and flax would be an unknown advantage to the kingdom, many places therein being as apt for it , as any foreing parts.
Francis Bacon
Now it's time to play a brand new game called Name That Barcode. Here's the first one: "Thick black, thin white, thick black, thick white, thick black, thin white." OK who's going to identify that?
Humphrey Lyttelton
From thick books one can not learn anything new. A thick book is a cemetery where antiquated ideas are laid to rest.
Lev Davidovich Landau
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