"The god-who-serves-ME requires flattery, not worship."
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"When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery."
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"Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth."
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"The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets."
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"In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery."
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"Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity."
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"If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure."
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"Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity."
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"Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do."
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"One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue."
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"Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy."
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"To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it."
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"There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers."
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"I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions."
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"True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit."
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