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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from
friendship).
[Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from
friendship).
[Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
If you can't love, learn how to flatter.
If you can't love, learn how to flatter.
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living.
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living.
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
If he be so resolved,
I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear
That unicorns may read more
If he be so resolved,
I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear
That unicorns may be betrayed with trees
And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,
Lions with toils, and men with flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.
