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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.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
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.
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.
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'
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Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'
Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;
Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces.
That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
Fools grow without watering.
Fools grow without watering.