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"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
"Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters."
"You're flattered because he wants to sleep with you? Who doesn't he want to sleep with?"
"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."
"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed."
"One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer."
"I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood."
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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."
"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."
"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
"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."
"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."
"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."
"That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time."
"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."
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