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

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

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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke

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Taxation
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. – Edmund Burke

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

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

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

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Many lick before they bite. – Proverb

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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. – Irish Proverb

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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. – George Herbert

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To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world – that I am able to change it in positive ways. – Maxine Hong Kingston

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In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics. – Hillary Clinton

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