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Letter "P" » praised
«When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin,She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin.An abstemious man would reel at her look,As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.»
Author: William Plomer
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«What we do is never understood, but only praised and blamed.»
«We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess»
«When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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