We have excellent Scriptural authority for the statement that it is well to beware when all men speak well of you; because it is an unfortunate feature of human nature that when they have appreciated a man up to the very last limit, they tend to go a little bit the other way, after a while.
Roosevelt warns about the dangers of excessive praise and the tendency for public opinion to shift.
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