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Panegyric Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
- The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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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… — Samuel Johnson
- He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following… — George Eliot
- A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against… — Charles Lamb
- No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary… — Oscar Wilde
- The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants. — Samuel Johnson
- When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric. — Jonathan Swift
- Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd. — Phineas Fletcher
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