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• Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

  Joseph Stilwell

  Publicity, Power Of Love, Charm

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• To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

  David Foster Wallace

  Commitment, Loss, Choices

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• Approve not of him who commends all you say.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.12, Nayika Publishing

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• To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.

  William Shenstone

  Art, Humble, Cards

  William Shenstone, David Mallet (1822). “The Poems of William Shenstone ...”, p.154

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• We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Envy, Age

  William Shakespeare (1812). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.22

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• Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Beauty, Gross, Objects

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.60, Oxford University Press

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• They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy that greatest form of flattery, without a doubt.

  Dennis Franchione

  Son, Doubt, Form

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• Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Eye, Heart, Men

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  God, Jobs, Believe

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.275, Random House

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• The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religious, Prayer, Real

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• Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Fire, Feminism

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• Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

  Jack Woodford

  Attention, Proof, Humans

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• In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Teacher, Husband, Party

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• Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

  William Feather

  Objects, Thick

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood" or that he is "different;" none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more than merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.

  Helen Rowland

  Wise, Men, Misunderstood

  "We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists".

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• Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Cost, Listeners, Flattered

  Jean de La Fontaine (1964). “The fables of La Fontaine”

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• The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Flattering, Incapable

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1926). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Notes on Shelley's correspondents. Letters, 1803 to 1812”

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• Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Advancement, May

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Glasses, Elephants

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1631, Oxford University Press

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• They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Blow, Glowing

  William Shakespeare (2004). “Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.11, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

  Donald Miller

  Art, People, Batteries

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• We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Political, Enough, Importance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.96, 谷月社

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• In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.

  Desson Thomson

  Hollywood, Imitation, Form

  "'101 Dalmatians': A Little Spotty" by Desson Howe, www.washingtonpost.com. November 27, 1996.

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• The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.

  John M. Tobin, Jr.

  Kindness, Women, Hands

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