"Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable."
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"What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?"
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"O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror."
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"You can stroke people with words."
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"In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning."
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"The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer."
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"Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure."
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"Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery."
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"Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest."
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"I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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"He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself."
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"Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men."
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"Imitation is the sincerest flattery."
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"Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery."
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"It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise."
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"Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it."
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"We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us."
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"If you mean to profit, learn to praise."
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"O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"
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