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Letter "C" » compliments
«Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone»
Author: Arab Proverb
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«A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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«I wish Christianity were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Women
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«Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears»
«Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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«When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.»
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