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

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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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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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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. – Samuel Johnson

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