. . . 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
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
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. – Alfred Marshall
