1If, after being praised by you, I begin to praise you, I fear I may seem not so much to be giving my judgement as returning a favour. 1But though I may seem so, I think all your writings very fine, and especially those about me. 2This happens for one and the same reason. 2For you write best what you write about your friends, and I read as best what is written about me. 2Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae IX
Pliny, Letter 9.8
Praise returned between friends
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