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If you can't love, learn how to flatter.
If you can't love, learn how to flatter.
Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.
Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.
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.
Fools grow without watering.
Fools grow without watering.
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.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
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.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
