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Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

William Shenstone
Compliment, Indirect, Deference
William Shenstone (1764). “The Works, in Verse and Prose”, p.254
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.