Compliments

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Tart Words make no Friends: a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a Gallon of Vinegar.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Criticizing others Compliments Kindness

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1744 1740s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1744.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1744." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

The Way of All Flesh

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Author

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

Source

The Way of All Flesh

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 34.

Current Citation

Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Everyman's Library, 1993, ch. 34.

Flattery will get you nowhere - but don't stop trying.

Dr. No

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Flattery Compliments

Speaker

Miss Moneypenny

Actor

Lois Maxwell

Source

Dr. No

Medium

Film

Genre

Spy (film) Action (film) Spy Action

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Dr. No. Directed by Terence Young, Eon Productions, 1962.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca the Younger

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Character Compliments

Author

Seneca the Younger

Source

Epistles (Seneca the Younger)

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

65 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

Current Citation

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.

Proverbs 27:2

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Compliments

Source

Proverbs The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

686 BC 680s BC 7th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 27:2).