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"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed."
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"You're flattered because he wants to sleep with you? Who doesn't he want to sleep with?"
"Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters."
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it."
"One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer."
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
"Imitation is the sincerest form 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."
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