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I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.