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Flattery will get you everywhere.
Flattery will get you everywhere.
Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm read more
Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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.
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself
None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
