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144.--We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive. … — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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SAPIR 861

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims — François de La Rochefoucauld

144.--We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive. Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.

Place: ¶268
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