"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

Flattery, Imitation

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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."

Theophrastus, Greek Philosopher

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"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it."

Wilson Mizner, American Dramatist

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"Flattery is the infantry of negotiation."

Lord Chandos, British Politician

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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."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."

Joyce Brothers, American Psychologist

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"You're flattered because he wants to sleep with you? Who doesn't he want to sleep with?"

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery."

Jack Paar, American Entertainer

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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."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood."

Billy Wilder, American Director

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"Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say."

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"The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end."

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"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."

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"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us."

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"The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down."

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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

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"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds."

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"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

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