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If you can't love, learn how to flatter.
If you can't love, learn how to flatter.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts read more
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her
By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Fools grow without watering.
Fools grow without watering.
We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
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.
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
