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Alas! ye lordes, many a false flatterer
Is in your courts, and many a losenger,
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Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a mo ...
I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, ...
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but ...
As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they the ...
Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.
Enough candor! Now some flattery, if you please.
Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.
Flattery and insults raise the same question: "What do you want?"
Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.
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