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[Quote No.19048] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest [polite]." - Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1826) German humorist Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19049] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "True politeness requires humility, good sense, and benevolence." - Lydia H. Sigourney (1791 - 1865) American author Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19050] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense." - Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845) English divine Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19051] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Politeness is like an air cushion; there may be nothing in it, but it eases our jolts wonderfully." - Unknown Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19052] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "The only true source of politeness is consideration, that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others." - Unknown Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19069] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave." - Dale Carnegie Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19081] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will but forget yourself, forget about the impression you are trying to make." - Dale Carnegie (1888 - 1955) American writer and speaker, who wrote, 'How To Win Friends and Influence People'
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[Quote No.19111] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "No person is so poor that he can't give a compliment." - Unknown Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19114] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873) English novelist Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19138] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Praise is the reflection doth from virtue rise; its fair encomiums do virtue raise to higher acts." - C. Aleyn (1590 - 1640) English historian poet
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[Quote No.19140] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "There is not a person...who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience." - Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) American clergy Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19142] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Praise is a debt we owe to the virtues of others..." - Sir Thomas Browne Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19143] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "How a little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt, which he feels is unjust, chills the ardor to excel." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873) English novelist Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19145] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, information, and abilities." - J. C. Hare Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19146] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise." - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) 3rd U.S. President Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19147] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain." - Francis Johnson (1562 - 1618) English - Dutch theologian Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19149] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "The most agreeable recompense, which we can receive for things, which we have done, is to see them known, to have them applauded with praises which honor us." - Jean Baptiste Moliere (1622 - 1673) French dramatist Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19150] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this." - Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) French mathematician and philosopher Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19151] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "I much prefer a compliment, insincere or not, to sincere criticism." - Plautus (254 B.C. - 184 B.C.) Roman comic poet Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19153] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "It is a great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy." - Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586) English soldier and poet Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19154] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know anyone more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy." - Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845) English divine Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19155] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Whenever you commend [praise], add your reasons for doing so; it is this, which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants, and admiration of fools." - Sir Richard Steele (1672 - 1729) English essayist Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19156] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "...to praise myself to any is the height of folly. He that boasts his own praises speaks ill of himself, and much derogates from his true deserts. It is worthy of blame to affect commendation." - Arthur Warwick 17th century English essayist
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[Quote No.19160] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "...it is better to have a heart without words, than words without a heart." - John Bunyan (1628 - 1688) English religious author, who wrote the allegorical 'Pilgrim's Progress' Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19171] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root.
" - John Selden (1584 - 1654) English lawyer and statesman. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19218] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "The art of dealing with people is the foremost secret of successful men." - Paul C. Packe Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19228] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them." - Josiah Gilbert Holland Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19231] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose." - Lily Walters Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19274] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "You can often measure a person by the size of his dream." - Robert H. Schuller Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19321] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Celebrate what you want to see more of." - Thomas J. Peters Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19364] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after." - Napoleon Hill Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19374] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "If we divine a discrepancy [lie] between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity [integrity], and even the good in him is hardly accepted." - Charles Horton Cooley Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19391] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes..." - Isaac Barrow Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19395] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "[Poem:]
A man convinced against his will,
Is of the same opinion still.
" - Samuel Butler (1612 - 1680) English poet Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19402] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." - John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) English economist Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19445] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "False face must hide what the false heart doth know." - William Shakespeare in 'Macbeth' - Act 1, Scene 7, (1564 - 1616), English dramatist and poet
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[Quote No.19462] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
" - William Shakespeare in 'King Richard III' - Act 4, scene 3, (1564 - 1616) English poet and dramatist
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[Quote No.19463] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood." - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) English poet and dramatist. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19467] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Action is eloquence." - William Shakespeare in 'Coriolanus' - Act 3, Scene 2, Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19468] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head." - William Shakespeare in 'The Tempest' - Act 3, Scene 2, (1564 - 1616) English poet and dramatist
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[Quote No.19495] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Pride thrust Nebuchadnezzar out of men's society, Saul out of his kingdom, Adam out of paradise, Haman out of court, and Lucifer out of Heaven." - T. Adam Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19496] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "When flowers are full of Heaven descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full." - Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) American clergy Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19497] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man [or woman] who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt." - Lord Bolingbroke (1678 - 1751) English statesman. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19498] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "If I had only one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against pride." - G.K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton(1874-1936) English writer, literary critic and author of the Father Brown detective stories. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19499] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Pride...is compounded of the vanity and ill nature that dispose men to admire themselves, and condemn other men..." - Lord Edward Hyde Clarendon (1609 - 1674) English historian and statesman Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19500] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "The disesteem and contempt of others is inseparable from pride. It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves but by undervaluing our neighbors." - Lord Edward Hyde Clarendon (1609 - 1674) English historian and statesman Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19501] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self..." - Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832) English clergy Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19502] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "There is a diabolical trio... pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves." - Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832) English clergy Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19503] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "...pride - that never failing vice of fools." - Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) English poet Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.19504] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall." - Bible, Proverb 16:18 Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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