The sweetest sound of all is praise.


Xenophon

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He the sweetest of all singers.
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Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
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Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.
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All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
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All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
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Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
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Death lies on her like an untimely frostUpon the sweetest flower of all the field.
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Praise is the best diet for us, after all
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The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.
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The Sweetest of Nights
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Some of the sweetest candy is sour as death inside.
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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
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When the fruit is scarcest its taste is sweetest
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The sweetest music this side of heaven.
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Often the lowest hanging fruit is not the sweetest.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
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Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.
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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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Leveraging existing resources is innovation’s sweetest play.
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Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!
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To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise
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Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
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