He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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K 41Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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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
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton
Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it.
Kin (Frank McKinney Hubbard) Hubbard
I have sometimes said that flattery is all right, Mr. President, if you don't inhale it.
Adlai Stevenson
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