Quotation Explorer - 'Commend'

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly. - Solon
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. - Sir Richard Steele
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. - Alexander Pope
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