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Quote by Minna Antrim
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of conte

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. – Minna Antrim

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The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. – Minna Antrim

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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. – Denis Diderot

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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us. – Proverb

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