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"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
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"One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer."
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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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"Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present."
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"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it."
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"A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue."
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"Immigration 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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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
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"I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood."
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"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
"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
Man
"I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent."
Time
"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."
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"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
Happiness
"To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author."
People
"There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter."
People
"Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes."
Man
"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
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