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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
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Flattery is a form of hatred.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
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Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Many lick before they bite.
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If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.
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He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
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Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
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But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
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To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.
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I will praise any man that will praise me.
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He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
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Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
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A flatterer is one who says things to your face that he wouldn't say behind your back.
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The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery: the only benefit of which is that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructed on what to become.
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