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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. - Samuel Jo

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

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. – Samuel Johnson

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. – Samuel Johnson

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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. – Samuel Johnson

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

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Flattery is a form of hatred. – Bible

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

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