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There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy. ↗

— Richard Steele

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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy. ↗

— Philip Sidney

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