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    I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.

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    It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

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    It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

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    It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

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    It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

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    It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

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    Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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    It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.

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    I will praise any man that will praise me.

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    Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

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    It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

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    Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

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    Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

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    Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

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    Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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    Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

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    Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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    Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

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    No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

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    Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.

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    Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

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    Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

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    Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

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    Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

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    No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

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    No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

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    Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

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    Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

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    No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

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    One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

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    Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

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    Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

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    O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

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    Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

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    Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do.

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    Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

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    The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

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    Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.

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    The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

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    The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

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    There is flattery in friendship.

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    Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

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    Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

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    The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

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    The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

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    The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.

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    The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.

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    There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

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    There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

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    There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

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