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Tag Name "Panegyric" (5)

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Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.
Phineas Fletcher
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Every other enjoyment malice may destroy every other panegyric envy may withhold but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
Samuel Johnson
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We must define flattery and praise they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.
Louis XVI of France
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Samuel Johnson