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When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
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.
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.
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'
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Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'
Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;
Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces.
That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he read more
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he who courts the flattery.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
