"Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present."
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"Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit."
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"People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things."
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"Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed ."
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"Imitation is always insult--not flattery."
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"The public wants work which flatters its illusions."
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"Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost."
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"Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem."
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"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
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"It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise."
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"Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it."
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"It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension."
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"Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads."
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"If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend."
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"People generally despise where they flatter."
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"No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery."
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"Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises."
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"Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice."
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"He who praises everybody, praises nobody."
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"Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having."
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