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.
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Marilyn Vos Savant
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
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Leo Tolstoy
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 converted, but a true-blue Muslim...
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Aravind Adiga
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 other in use, in the end, and in the disposition of...
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Maximus Tyrius
When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.
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Melina Marchetta
More Quotes By Walter Colton
Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
If you would know and not be known live in a city.
If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
