Often we exaggerate the goodness of others more for our own virtue in giving praise than for the virtues that we praise thus we invite commendation by seeming to dispense it.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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The reason so few men can carry on a sensible and agreeable conversation is that there is hardly one but thinks more of what he himself intends to say than of what is being said to him by others. Sometimes even the cleverest and politest man only feigns attention, while we can see by his eyes that his mind has gone back to polish up his own remarks. He does not consider that the worst way to win over others is to talk for his own pleasure, and that the best conversationalist is he who listens with care and answers to the point.
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