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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.
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.]
Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection.
Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth
flattering.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth
flattering.
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
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No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he who courts the flattery.
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.
