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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

Getting money is not all a mans business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. – Samuel Johnson

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Business
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Samuel Johnson
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In a mans letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives. – Samuel Johnson

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Letters (writing)
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My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson

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Age
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Flattery
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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

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Flattery

I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales. – P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

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

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