Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it.
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Short Furrows (1913)?Kin Hubbard (Frank McKinney Hubbard)
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Make a party over your negative thoughts, assuring them that they are the safest, the most cautious, company you have ever kept. At first they will swallow your flattery, but then suddenly, stricken with shame, and knowing themselves for the impostors they are, out and off they will go.
Henry S. Haskins
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
Ludwig van Beethoven
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges
Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt.
Do you like to hurt?
I do, I do
then hurt me.Conor Oberst
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