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• A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Real, Men, Doe

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• Are you tired? You should be! You've been running through my mind all day.

  Gary Barlow

  Running, Thinking Of You, Flirty

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• Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible--a time to stand up and be counted--strike a blow for liberty--smite the wicked.' Ummm...' So quit yawning, the time has come.' She glanced down. 'Maybe I had better get dressed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Blow, Years

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.89, Penguin

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• But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Deceit, Favors

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.122

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• It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

  Plutarch

  Character, Giving, Praise

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• [Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Strong, Children, Mouths

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• Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Thinking, Circles

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.69

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• A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

  John Adams

  Patriotic, Heart, Men

  John Adams (1805). “Discourses on Davila: A series of papers, on political history. Written in the year 1790, and then published in the Gazette of the United States”, p.26

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• Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

  Jeremy Collier

  Confidence, Ignorance, Self

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• Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

  Fanny Fern

  Giving, Justice, Bonnets

  Fanny Fern (1868). “Folly as it Flies”, p.31

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• Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

  Jeremy Collier

  Character, Looks, Satire

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• Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Giving, Receiving, Ought

  Maria Edgeworth (1971). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”

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• I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to the majority of the population in some way. Sometimes it's their looks, other times their perceived sex appeal (often in obvious defiance of their looks), and other times it is their real or imagined talent for acting, writing, painting or banging on the drums. And because people are so susceptible to flattery, there exists an entire industry made up of scam artists whose sole goal is to fleece the flatterable.

  Fay Faron

  Sex, Real, Believe

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• Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Beautiful, Thinking, Grace

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.92, Oxford University Press

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• There are some people who imagine that they can disarm their enemy by complacent flattery. They are wrong. The world has always belonged to the stronger and will belong to them for many years to come. Men only respect those who make themselves respected. Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Men, Years, People

  Vilfredo Pareto, Placido Bucolo (1980). “The other Pareto”

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• Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Greatness, Mediocrity, Pay

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• My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered.

  Lil' Mama

  Cutting, Who I Am, The End Of The Day

  "Lil Mama On Her Style Evolution; Nicki Minaj & Being A Curse-Free Rapper". Interview with Tray Hova, www.vibe.com. June 15, 2011.

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• You cannot rationalize what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called truthization. There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Lying, Believe, People

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• I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

  Tom Lehrer

  People, Interesting, Form

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

  Publilius Syrus

  Betrayal, Doe, Fortune

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 277,

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• I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally. Instead, find out what's needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Girlfriend, Believe, Ties

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• Flattery is praise without foundation.

  Eliza Leslie

  Foundation, Praise

  Eliza Leslie (1853). “The Behaviour Book: A Manual for Ladies”, p.247

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• The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful--wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.

  Owen Feltham

  Friends, Wise, Thinking

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.23

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• It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

  James Vila Blake

  Mind, Poison, Rats

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• I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying.

  Pink

  Thinking, Annoying, Imitation

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