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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.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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.]
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is
very wickedness; their throat is an open read more
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is
very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter
with their tongue.
Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
