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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Flattery
Minna Antrim

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Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
Luck
Lord Beaverbrook

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Flattery is a form of hatred.
Flattery
Bible

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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Flattery
Josh Billings

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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Posterity
Jorge Luis Borges

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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Listening
Dr. Joyce Brothers

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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Flattery
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Flattery
Edmund Burke

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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Poetry and Poets
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Royalty
Benjamin Disraeli

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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Ambition
Oliver Goldsmith

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He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
Flattery
Italian Proverb

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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Flattery
Samuel Johnson

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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
Flattery
Thomas Kempis

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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Flattery
Jean De La Fontaine

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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Flattery
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Praise
Wendell Phillips

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Money
Plutarch

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If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.
Flattery
Proverb

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Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
Flattery
Francis Quarles

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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Motivation
Jean Paul Richter

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
Politicians and Politics
Jean Rostand

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He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.
Flattery
William Shakespeare

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
Politicians and Politics
William Shakespeare

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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
Royalty
George Bernard Shaw

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