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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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"One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer."
"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 hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it."
"Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
"I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood."
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"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."
"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
"To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject."
"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."
"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."
"It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories."
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