#flatterer

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. ↗

— William Blake

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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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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. ↗

— William Shenstone

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Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. ↗

— George Chapman

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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. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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