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Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
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.]
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.
If he be so resolved,
I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear
That unicorns may read more
If he be so resolved,
I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear
That unicorns may be betrayed with trees
And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,
Lions with toils, and men with flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.
