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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

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Cruelty
Author
Samuel Johnson
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Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Coffee (or Tea)
Author
Samuel Johnson
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Flattery
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. – Jorge Luis Borges

Category:
Flattery

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

Category:
Flattery

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

Category:
Flattery

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

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Flattery

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