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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Flattery will get you everywhere.
Flattery will get you everywhere.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
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.
Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.
To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
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.
