Richard Steele Quotes About Flattery
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There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
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The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.
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The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.
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Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him
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Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
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