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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.
O that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf but not to flattery!
O that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf but not to flattery!
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 all right so long as you don't inhale.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
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
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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.
