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A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
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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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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
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Envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
Aphorisms in the English Review -
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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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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I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Lacon I, 183 -
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
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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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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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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
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Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.
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