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    'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
    That flattery's the food of fools;
    Yet now and then your men of wit
    Will condescend to take a bit.

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By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

by Abraham Lincoln Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is
very wickedness; their throat is an open read more

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is
very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter
with their tongue.

by Bible Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

by Charles Caleb Colton Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed

by Josh Billings Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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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.

by Lord Chesterfield Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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