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It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the
manner in which it is done.
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We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the
manner in which it is done.
[Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que
a maniere de flatter.]
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.]
If you can't love, learn how to flatter.
If you can't love, learn how to flatter.
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.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
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.
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
