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Flattery will get you everywhere.
Flattery will get you everywhere.
None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he read more
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he who courts the flattery.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth
flattering.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth
flattering.
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
[Ger., Es ist dem Menschen leichter und read more
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
[Ger., Es ist dem Menschen leichter und gelaufiger, zu
schmeicheln als zu loben.]
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
