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Victor Hugo

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Topic: compliment
Location: Death Valley National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. — Sophocles

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I can live for two months on a good compliment. — Mark Twain

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Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising. — Bruce Lee

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Admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. — Seneca

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We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own. — Ben Sweetland

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Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment. — William Feather

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Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. — Lord Chesterfield

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. — Henry David Thoreau

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Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. — Socrates

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When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one. — Mark Twain

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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. — Oscar Wilde

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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author. — Samuel Johnson

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Everybody likes a compliment. — Abraham Lincoln

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Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them. — Thomas Fuller

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Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune. — Sam Walton

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa

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Do not offer a compliment and ask for a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable. — Mark Twain

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If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance. — Dale Carnegie

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He that does good to another does good also to himself. — Seneca

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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect. — Mark Twain

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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. — Blaise Pascal

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The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another. — Mark Twain

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