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When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
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.
By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an
ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
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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.]
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came,
And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame;
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came,
And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame;
Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease,
Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
