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A quotation from Richard Steele

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
Essay (1711-12-03), The Spectator, No. 238

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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could do us no harm.
 
[Si nous ne nous flattions point nous-mêmes, la flatterie des autres ne nous pourroit nuire.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶152 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

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A quotation from Josh Billings

Flattery iz like colone water, tew be smelt ov, not swallered.
 
[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1870-02 (1870 ed.)

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