Carolyn Wells Quotes
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
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Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Flattery'll get you anywhere.
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
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Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.
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There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.
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But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!
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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
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Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
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There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
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Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
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It was so popular, so more people identify me from 'Friends' than anything else.
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When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'
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Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.
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Invitation is the sincerest flattery.
