"Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career."

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Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.

— Sydney J. Harris