#congratulate

I did not approve of your action—I was merely congratulating myself. What you mistook for clapping was merely me giving myself multiple high fives.
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— Jarod Kintz

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#applaud #applause #approve #clap #clapping

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. ↗

— Robert Conquest

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#congratulate #environment #fault #moral #more