1. "Formative commendation to the author as an altar boy: "You're the only one we've got to anticipates what's coming."
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John Kasich, Every Other Monday: Twenty Years of Life
2. "Miss Bennet was therefore established as a sweet girl, and their brother felt authorized by such a commendation to think of her as he chose."
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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
3. "and, assure thyself, there is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man’s commendation with woman than report of valour."
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William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
4. "From the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard came a note from Professor F. W. Putnam, rapturous in his commendation of your great work."
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Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
5. "many a medal awarded in any war represents just the shade of difference which separates a commendation from a court martial."
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Charles Lockwood, Hellcats of the Sea: Operation Barney and the Mission to the Sea of Japan
6. "Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly."
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Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
7. "Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked."
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Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
8. "Fulton J. Sheen Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked."
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Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary”
9. "The best commendation of any work is to know that one has done the work that God has given him well and that God is pleased with his effort."
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Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
10. "Bill Aalto, the working-class Finnish-American boy from the Bronx, the tough, intelligent, street-wise kid who became a guerrilla captain and came out of Spain with the highest commendation of any awarded to a Lincoln brigader."
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Helen Graham, The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century