"Imitation is the highest form of flattery." — Charles Caleb Colton
"Imitation is the highest form of flattery."
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Charles Caleb Colton
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number;…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud…
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to…
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if…
— Pietro Aretino
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as…
— John Adams
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
— Joseph Addison
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
— Josh Billings
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
— Josh Billings
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
— Joyce Brothers
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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
— Edmund Burke
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body.…
— Winston Churchill
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Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
— Antisthenes
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