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Flatters Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he…
- Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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- No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired… — Jean-Georges Noverre
- There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy. — Michel de Montaigne
- Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of… — Samuel Johnson
- Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness. — Walter Savage Landor
- The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion… — George Eliot
- A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and… — Lord Chesterfield
- A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton