"But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected;……" — Samuel Johnson

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• The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of… — Joseph Addison
• As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let… — Buffalo Bill
• I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women,… — Sherman Alexie
• Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. — Lord Chesterfield
• I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to… — Maya Angelou
• Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality — Ivan Pavlov
• I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a… — Benjamin Franklin
• The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. — Alexander Hamilton
• One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare — Mark Twain
• Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to… — Oswald Chambers

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