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"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."
"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."
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed."
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
"Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters."
"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it."
"I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood."
Explore more quotes by James Monroe
"At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country."
"I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis."
"Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete."
"The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation."
"From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves."
"By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry."
"If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy."
"The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong."
"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty."
"The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation."
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