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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.
Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read read more
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
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!
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.
