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

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

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. – Edmund Burke

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

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

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

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If food hath slain its thousands, then drink has slain its tens of thousands. – William Kitchiner, Directions for Invigorating and Prolonging Life, 1831

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I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom. – Terri Guillemets

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Goodness is the only investment that never fails. – Henry David Thoreau

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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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