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"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
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"Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."
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"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed."
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"To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is."
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"Flattery is the infantry of negotiation."
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"One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer."
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"You're flattered because he wants to sleep with you? Who doesn't he want to sleep with?"
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"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
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"Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present."
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"Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters."
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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
Marriage
"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
Fame
"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."
Politics
"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
Life
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
Happiness
"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."
Danger
"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."
Nothing
"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost."
Religion
"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."
Wealth
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
Wisdom
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