"We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we……" — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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• To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
• For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when… — Paula Abdul
• 'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents… — Richard Chamberlain
• An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. — George Chapman
• God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered. — John Cleese
• More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. — Robert Smith Surtees
• He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice. — Anatole France
• Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in… — Samuel Johnson
• While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became… — Henry David Thoreau
• Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.… — Abraham Lincoln
• Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. — Abraham Lincoln
• I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and… — John Mortimer

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