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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."
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"Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."
"I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood."
"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."
"One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer."
"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed."
"You're flattered because he wants to sleep with you? Who doesn't he want to sleep with?"
"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it."
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"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."
"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
"With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed."
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"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."
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