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"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
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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."
"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."
"You're flattered because he wants to sleep with you? Who doesn't he want to sleep with?"
"Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."
"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it."
"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed."
"Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters."
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
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"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."
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."
"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing."
"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."
"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."
"We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed."
"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."
"Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed."
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