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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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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. – Edmund Burke

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. . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study? – Jane Austen

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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. – Jean De La Fontaine

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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. – Johann von Goethe

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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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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. – George Eliot, Felix Holt, The Radical

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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door. – William James

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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. – William Howard Taft

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