"One may define flattery as a base companionship……" — Theophrastus

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• There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.… — Bill Bryson
• I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison… — Abraham Lincoln
• I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the… — John Cheever
• Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Henri Poincare
• Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions. — Sun Tzu
• The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous. — Grove Karl Gilbert
• Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous. — Sun Tzu
• It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock.… — Samuel Johnson
• It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces… — Leo Tolstoy
• To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the… — Alexander Hamilton
• I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to… — Mickey Rourke
• Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us… — N. Scott Momaday

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