Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,
For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.Samuel Johnson
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For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey,
This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,
Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?Thomas Gray
Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.
Thomas Morton (playwright)
The cold in clime are cold in blood,
Their love can scarce deserve the name.Lord Byron
I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame.
Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown,
Imagine that they raise their own.
Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise,
Think slander can transplant the bays.John Gay
Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.
James Boswell
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