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title: "5 Unmerited Praise Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutherford-b-hayes/unjust-attacks-on-public-men-do-them-more-good-than-unmerited-praise/)

[Rutherford B. Hayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rutherford-b-hayes/)

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> [An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/an-ingenuous-mind-feels-in-unmerited-praise-the-bitterest-reproof-if/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

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> [An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/an-ingenuous-mind-feels-in-unmerited-praise-the-bitterest-reproof/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/241/walter-savage-landor-1404_feels_an-ingenuous-mind-feels-in-unmerited-pra_1360501.png)

> [An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/an-ingenious-mind-feels-in-unmerited-praise-the-bitterest-reproof/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ee/walter-savage-landor-1404_criticism_an-ingenious-mind-feels-in-unmerited-pra_1360737.png)

> [Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/unmerited-abuse-wounds-while-unmerited-praise-has-not-the-power-to/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2dd/thomas-jefferson-43_abuse_unmerited-abuse-wounds-while-unmerited-p_3096359.jpg)

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