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"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed."
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"Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it."
"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?"
"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."
"I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood."
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"It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash."
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