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

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. – Samuel Johnson

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Government
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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Future
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For lack of a better term, theyve labeled me a sex symbol. Its flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy. – Dennis Franz

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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. – Proverb

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Flattery

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. – Italian Proverb

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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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Flattery

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My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So theres a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community. – Mike Huckabee

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