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Flattery


 Flattery will get you nowhere

 He that is open to flattery is fenced against admonition

 I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
  Agnetha Faltskog

 I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
  Agnetha Faltskog

 I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
  Eleanor Roosevelt

 Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
  Abraham Lincoln

 Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art
  Thomas Jefferson

 Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
  Dame Edith Sitwell

 The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
  Dame Edith Sitwell

 The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional
  Walter Savage Landor

 What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s
  Samuel Johnson

 When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of
  Agnetha Faltskog


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