• Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

    Richard Steele: Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1832). “The Spectator: with notes and general index, from the London stereotype edition ...”, p.346