"The public wants work which flatters its illusions." — Gustave Flaubert

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• A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a… — Lord Chesterfield
• A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. — George Bernard Shaw
• Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in… — Samuel Johnson
• Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me. — Thomas a Kempis
• Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. — George Bernard Shaw
• It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain… — Samuel J. Tilden
• In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He… — Gautama Buddha
• When fortune flatters, she does it to betray. — Publilius Syrus
• No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it… — Jean-Georges Noverre
• The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against… — Alan Redpath
• We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter… — Denis Diderot

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