Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy
The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.
What usually works: Simple sells. When you have to get out an encyclopedia and an Excel sheet to show somebody how much they make on a stream that comes by way of ad revenue, it gets a little complicated.