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“I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated your lover knows you can't.”
“After this manner conceive that a flatterer differs from a friend: for it often happens to both that they engage in the same employments and the same associations; but the one differs from the othe...”
“Becoming accomplished at what you do is no easy task, nor is the goal reached in a day. The process is time consuming, requires dedication, innovative ideas, meticulous strategizing and can be quit...”
“It's love that makes the world go round - otherwise it would be flat.”
“When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.”
“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
“In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. ”
“It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven...”
“He shook his head, but I kept flattering him, telling him how fine his beard was, how fair his skin was (ha!), how it was obvious from his nose and forehead that he wasn't some pig herd who had con...”
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but theft is a sin.”
“I'll read enoughWhen I do see the very book indeedWhere all my sins are writ, and that's myself.Give me that glass and therein will I read.No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struckSo many blows up...”
“I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if he enjoys it, he naturally wants to receive it. And if he wants to receive it, he cannot help but being distraught at...”
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”
“Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.”
“Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.”
“A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.”
“O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!”
“Their throat is an open sepulchre they flatter with their tongue.”
“It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.”
“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?' 'Because they can't help it, m...”
