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"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
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"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed."
"Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."
"One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer."
"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."
"I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood."
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."
"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."
"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."
"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."
"Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried."
"Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another."
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