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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. - Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. – Edmund Burke

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People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. – Edmund Burke

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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures. – Edmund Burke

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When the flatterer pipes, then the devil dances. – Thomas Fuller

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

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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Dont flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great. – Thomas Kempis

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