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    The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an
    ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
    [Lat., Adulandi gens prudentissima laudat
    Sermonem indocti, faciem deformis amici.]

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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late
repentance.
[Lat., Qu se laudari read more

They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late
repentance.
[Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis subdolis,
Sera dant peonas turpes poenitentia.]

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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth
flattering.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth
flattering.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm read more

Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

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Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

by George Chapman Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living.

by Antisthenes Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from
friendship).
[Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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

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Fools grow without watering.

Fools grow without watering.

by Thomas Fuller Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

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