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Flattery Quotes by Mark Twain
- We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.
- To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
- The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
- Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.
- A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.
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- Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. — Josh Billings
- The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. — Josh Billings
- He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. — Jorge Luis Borges
- Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. — Joyce Brothers
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- Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. — Edmund Burke
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- Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. — Antisthenes