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

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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

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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – 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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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. – Samuel Johnson

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

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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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. . . 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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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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