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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. – Samuel Johnson

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any mans virtues the means of deceiving him. – Samuel Johnson

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Many lick before they bite. – Proverb

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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. – Minna Antrim

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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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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. – Proverb

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