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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twic
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 624-25, Maxims. No. 152, 1922.
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