Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.
Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some; others of a moderate share that they have a great deal; but those of elegance and charm generally know the perfection of their external graces so well, that they seem to covet that flattery most which heightens the opinion of their wit and judgment.
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